ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT

Pool B of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament is hosted in the ancient city of Khiva, in Uzbekistan. The event takes place from November 28 to December 11 at Hotel Farovon Khiva.

Khiva was founded approximately 2,500 years ago and was once one of the most important cities on the silk road. Regarded as the capital of the Turkic world, it offers visitors a clustered array of mosques, madrassahs, and tiled minarets. Khiva is now receiving worldwide attention as a destination, and it was declared the tourist capital of the Islamic world in 2024.
This bracket will see the clash between the 2020 runner-up Aleksandra Goryachkina, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Tan Zhongyi as the top finishers at the FIDE World Cup 2021, and Kateryna Lagno as one of the top-three finishers at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–2021. Under the new knock-out format, players in each of the two brackets or "pools" will play a four-game match (plus tie-breaks, if needed) in order to advance to the next stage, with the final match being played over the distance of six games.

The prize fund for this pool is €70,000, while another €110,000 will be at stake in the Women's Candidates Final, raising the total to a record-breaking amount of €250,000.


KHIVA

Pool B: November 28 - December 11 2022
28 November
28 November
Arrival day


Technical meeting / 5:00 pm

Opening Ceremony / 8:00 pm
29 November
29 November
Round 1 Game 1 / 3:00 pm
30 November
30 November
Round 1 Game 2 / 3:00 pm
1 December
1 December
Free day
2 December
2 December
Round 1 Game 3 / 3:00 pm
3 December
3 December
Round 1 Game 4 / 3:00 pm
4 December
4 December
Tie-breaks / 3:00 pm
5 December
5 December
Free Day
6 December
6 December
Round 2 Game 1 / 3:00 pm
7 December
7 December
Round 2 Game 2 / 3:00 pm
8 December
8 December
Free day
9 December
9 December
Round 2 Game 3 / 3:00 pm
10 December
10 December
Round 2 Game 4 / 3:00 pm
11 December
11 December
Tie-breaks / 2:00 pm
Closing Ceremony