Women's World Rapid Chess Championship 2025

The FIDE Women's World Rapid Championship was a chess tournament held in Doha, Qatar. The tournament was held along with the FIDE (International Chess Federation) World Rapid Chess Championship 2025, World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 and Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2025. Aleksandra Goryachkina won the championship after defeating Zhu Jiner in blitz playoff.

Schedule

Format

There will be 13 rounds according to the Swiss system. Time controls will be as follows -

15 minutes set as default time on the clock for each player.
10 seconds added on the clock of each player each time the clock is pressed starting from the first move, except for the case of making a claim.
Additional time can be given as compensation of opponent either violated any rule or made an invalid claim. The time added, if any, shall be decided by the arbiter.

Players are given points according to their performance in the tournament. Points are awarded as follows -

1 Point awarded for each victory
0.5 Point awarded for each draw scored
No point awarded for a loss

At the end, the players are ranked according to the total points they scored in the tournament in descending order.

When two or more players are tied for the same rank but not rank 1, the tie should be broken without any tie-breaker by Buchholz system. If there is still a tie, their average FIDE rating for Rapid games shall be taken into account, the player with higher rating shall receive a higher rank. If there is still a tie, drawing of lots shall remain the final resort to break the tie.

When two are tied for the first place, no method mentioned above shall be used. In such a case, 2 Blitz chess matches shall be played with time control 3 minutes default clock time + Increment of 2 seconds per move to determine the winner. If it ends in a draw, one sudden death game shall determine the winner.

When more than two are tied for the first place, all tied at the first position shall be ranked in the manner mentioned above in order of preference Buchholz System>FIDE rating>Drawing lots and then all not in 1st or 2nd position shall have it as their final ranking, while the two players shall play the Blitz chess matches as stated above and the winner shall occupy rank one and the loser will be given rank 2.

Finally, the person who scored rank 1 is given the title of World Rapid Chess Champion.

Results

Swiss stage

The following table lists all participants, with the results from the 11 rounds. They are ranked according to the results, taking into account the tie-breaks.

Notation: "1 (W 88)" indicates a game against the player of rank 88 (Zeinab Mamedyarova) with W white pieces that resulted in a win (1 point).

First place play-off