FIDE Women's Grand Prix Cycle 2013-2014

Finally - an announcement from FIDE.  So, there will be a FIDE Women's Grand Prix Cycle after all.  Geez!

Women's Grand-Prix announcement

Friday, 22 March 2013

FIDE announces the Women's Grand-Prix 2013-2014 which will give qualification to the Women's World Championship match 2015. The schedule of the six events is the following: * 2-16 May 2013 Geneva, Switzerland * 15-29 June 2013 Dilijan, Armenia * 17 September - 1 October 2013 Tashkent, Uzbekistan * 2-16 May 2014 Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia * 18 June - 2 July 2014 Tbilisi, Georgia * 24 August - 7 September 2014 Erdenet, Mongolia In total 18 players will participate, 10 qualifiers as per regulations (listed below) plus 6 nominees from the organisers of each tournament (to be announced) plus 2 nominees of the FIDE President (to be announced). The 10 original qualifiers who have to confirm their participation by 26 March are: 01. Ushenina, Anna (World Champion 2012) 02. Stefanova, Antoaneta (finalist world championship 2012) 03. Ju, Wenjun (semi-finalist world championship 2012) 04. Harika, Dronavalli (semi-finalist world championship 2012) 05. Polgar, Judit (by rating 2703.78, average 9 lists Mar 2012 to Jan 2013) [she won't  play] 06. Hou, Yifan (by rating 2610.78, average 9 lists Mar 2012 to Jan 2013) 07. Koneru, Humpy (by rating 2598.44, average 9 lists Mar 2012 to Jan 2013) 08. Muzychuk, Anna (by rating 2593.33, average 9 lists Mar 2012 to Jan 2013) 09. Zhao, Xue (by rating 2555.00, average 9 lists Mar 2012 to Jan 2013) 10. Dzagnidze, Nana (by rating 2551.89, average 9 lists Mar 2012 to Jan 2013) The first reserve for any replacement needed is Lagno [Lahno], Kateryna (by rating 2546.33, average 9 lists Mar 2012 to Jan 2013). The full regulations of the Women's Grand-Prix 2013-2014 are published here: http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=137&view=article