Women's World Cup

Participants: 103 players.

System: Seven-round single-elimination; each match is best of two classical games, followed by a tie-break day.

Time Control: 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to finish, with a 30-second increment from move 1.

Tie-break ladder:

1. Two rapid games, 25 + 10 s.

2. Two rapid games, 10 + 10 s.

3. Two blitz games, 5 + 3 s.

4. Armageddon: White 3 + 2 s vs. Black 2 minutes (no increment); a draw counts as a Black win.

The 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup will run from 5 to 29 July 2025 in Batumi, Georgia, bringing more than a hundred of the world’s strongest women players to the Black Sea resort for a high-stakes knockout that awards three coveted tickets to the next Women’s Candidates while sharing a $676,250 prize pool.