WGM Le Thao Nguyen Pham (Vietnam) and WIM Turmunkh Munkhzul (Mongolia) qualified for the Grand Prix of Women's Speed Chess Championship. The second qualifier (a 3+1 Swiss tournament followed by an 8-player knockout) broke the record of the first one in terms of numbers, as 229 players took part in the competition.

Top eight finishers made it to the knockout playoff: Le Thao Nguyen Pham (Vietnam, 11/13), Karina Ambartsumova (Russia), Vaishali R (India), Valentina Gunina (Russia, 10/13), Petra Papp (Hungary), Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia), Turmunkh Munkhzul (Mongolia), and Deysi Cori (Peru, all scored 9.5/13). Full results of the second qualifier can be found here.

In the playoff, the top Vietnamese WGM Le Thao Nguyen Pham continued her hot run beating Deysi Cori 1.5-0.5 and Petra Papp 1.5-0.5. WIM Turmunkh Munkhzul defeated Karina Ambartsumova in the decisive Armageddon game and then convincingly outplayed Vaishali R 2-0.

This is arguably the greatest achievement in the chess career of 18-year-old Turmunkh, who became a WIM after tying for first (along with Medina Warda Aulia and Batkhuyag Munguntuul) at the 2019 FIDE Zone 3.3 Women's Championship.

The FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship is an online competition for female players held between June 18 and July 20, 2020. The competition consists of four separate stages, with the first now underway.

Four more of these Swiss tournaments, followed by a knockout, will be played and to deliver two qualifiers each for the Grand Prix stage that follows. WSCC Super Final in which two best players of Grand Prix face-off, crowns the competition. The Swiss tournaments are open to any titled women player (WCM/WFM/WIM/WGM/IM/GM). Each one of the Grand Prix legs has a total prize fund of 10,300 USD, with 3,000 going to the winner. The prize fund of WSCC Super Final amounts to 10,000 USD, with 6,500 going to the winner, and 3,500 to the runner up.

More information about the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship can be found here.