FIDE Women Grand Prix 2024 Shymkent LIVE
The second leg of the WGP Series, after the FIDE Tbilisi Women Grand Prix 2024 is now underway. WGP Series consists of six Women’s Grand Prix tournaments held over two years 2024-2025. The tournament structure is 10 rounds-Robin. A total of twenty players compete in the WGP series, as each Women Grand Prix event will have ten participants. The competitors in the current leg include Zhongyi Tan, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Humpy Koneru, Kateryna Lagno, Deshmukh Divya, Bibisara Assaubayeva, Elisabeth Paehtz, Stavroula Tsolakidou, Nurgyul Salimova and Batkhuyag Munguntuul.
Round 1: Nurgyul Salimova – Bibisara Assaubayeva / Batkhuyag Munguntuul – Stavroula Tsolakidou / Zhongyi Tan – Elisabeth Paehtz / Deshmukh Divya – Humpy Koneru / Kateryna Lagno – Aleksandra Goryachkina
Round 2: Aleksandra Goryachkina – Bibisara Assaubayeva / Stavroula Tsolakidou – Nurgyul Salimova / Elisabeth Paehtz – Batkhuyag Munguntuul / Humpy Koneru – Zhongyi Tan / Kateryna Lagno – Deshmukh Divya
Round 3: Deshmukh Divya – Aleksandra Goryachkina / Batkhuyag Munguntuul – Humpy Koneru / Nurgyul Salimova – Elisabeth Paehtz / Bibisara Assaubayeva – Stavroula Tsolakidou / Zhongyi Tan – Kateryna Lagno
Current standings after Round 2:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
| 1 | IM | Assaubayeva, Bibisara | KAZ | 2487 | 1.5 |
| 2 | IM | Tsolakidou, Stavroula | GRE | 2439 | 1.5 |
| 3 | GM | Tan, Zhongyi | CHN | 2551 | 1.5 |
| 4 | GM | Koneru, Humpy | IND | 2530 | 1 |
| 5 | GM | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | FID | 2533 | 1 |
| 6 | IM | Divya, Deshmukh | IND | 2501 | 1 |
| 7 | IM | Munguntuul, Batkhuyag | MGL | 2344 | 1 |
| 8 | GM | Lagno, Kateryna | FID | 2527 | 1 |
| 9 | IM | Salimova, Nurgyul | BUL | 2405 | 0.5 |
| 10 | GM | Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | 2458 | 0 |