FIDE Women World Chess Cup 2025 is taking place July 5 – July 29 in Batumi, Georgia, and is one of the major events of The Chess Calendar. A total of 107 participants (increased from the initially announced 103 participants) will compete for 691 000 eur prize fund.
The participants list now contains 105 of the players – the continental spots, the federation nominees, and the nominee of the organizer have been announced. There are only two spots remaining, which are the Nominees of the FIDE President.
We know of a long list of players that will miss the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025. Here is a list of top 100 women players and top 100 girls players who are not present in the list of the FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025 and might miss it if not invited by the FIDE Presidents.
From the FIDE top 100 list
#1 Yifan Hou (China)
#2 Ju Wenjun (China)
#14 Rameshbabu Vaishali (India)
#17 Yuliia Osmak (Ukraine)
#23 Leya Garifullina (FID)
#25 Marie Sebag (France)
#30 Olga Badelka (AUT)
#34 Anna Shukhman (FID)
#37 Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany)
#38 Dinara Wagner (GER)
#41 Pia Cramling
#42 Karina Ambartsumova (FID)
#47 Sachdev Tania (India)
#50 Yixin Ding (China)
#51 Alisa Galliamova (FID)
#52 Sabrina Vega Gutierrez (Spain)
#55 Gunay Mammadzada (Azerbaijan)
#56 Yang Shen (China)
#58 Vantika Agrawal (India)
#62 Pin Wang (China)
#64 Iweta Rajlich (Poland)
#67 Qi Guo (China)
#68 Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova (Uzbekistan)
#69 Monika Socko (Poland)
#70 Qian Huang (China)
#72 Karina Cyfka (Poland)
#74 Almira Skripchenko (France)
#75 Khanim Balajayeva (Azerbaijan)
#76 Anastasia Bodnaruk (FID)
#78 Munguntuul Batkhuyag (Mongolia)
#79 Zoey Tang (USA)
#80 Eline Roebers (The Netherlands)
#81 Thanh Trang Hoang (Hungary)
#82 Kulkarni Bhakti (India)
#83 Medina Warda Aulia (Indonesia)
#84 Mariia Manko (Switzerland)
#85 Yiyi Xiao (China)
#87 Anna M. Sargsyan (USA)
#88 Yelyzaveta Hrebenshchykova (Ukraine)
#89 Ekaterina Atalik (Turkey)
#90 Xeniya Balabayeva (Kazakhstan)
#92 Alina Bivol (FID)
#94 Zhaoqin Peng (The Netherlands)
#96 Daria Voit (FID)
#97 Hanna Marie Klek (Germany)
#99 Yuliya Shvayger (Israel)
#100 Kateryna Dolzhykova (Germany)
From the FIDE top 100 girls
#12 Alua Nurman (Kazakhstan)
#17 Olga Dm. Karmanova (FID)
#19 Anna Zhurova (FID)
Update 21.06 : FIDE has announced Tokhirjonova, Gulrukhbegim (UZB) and Vantika Agrawal (IND) as Nominees of the FIDE President. These will be the final two participants, if no replacements are needed. Find the full participants list here
