The Global Women’s Online Chess Challenge “The Queens’ Festival”, a series of continental and global women’s online chess tournaments and educative side events, will start on June 11, 2021.

The festival organized by the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess in cooperation with the FIDE Events Commission and with the support of the Asian Chess Federation, African Chess Confederation, European Chess Union, and Confederation of Chess for Americas is a unique all-inclusive event aiming at developing a strong global community of women in chess and enhancing the participation of women in all aspects of chess life.

Built on the recent success and appeal of the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit”, this event promotes female players, organizers, arbiters, influencers, leaders, and rising stars of all levels, backgrounds and countries.

Players from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas will first be able to participate in the Continental Online Blitz Qualification Tournaments and those who qualify will advance to the Queens’ Online Individual and Team Finals. 

You can view the Regulations here. Registrations for the tournaments are made by the National Federations by filling this Excel file and sending it to the organizers’ email address: queensfestival@fide.com

For those interested in various chess-related topics, we prepared seminars and networking events with special guests including Dana Reizniece-Ozola, Dinara Saduakassova, Jennifer Shahade, Susan Namangale, Regina Pokorna, Sarkhan Gashimov, Dr. Gnounewou Fopa Seraphin and others. Registration for side events is here.

More information about the event can be found at queensfestival.fide.com

We invite all female chess enthusiasts to participate, play, learn and connect.

Doing what we love, together we can make a difference in our global chess community!

Eva Repkova,

Chair of FIDE WOM Commission