{"id":9231,"date":"2025-02-07T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chessbd.com\/?p=9231"},"modified":"2025-02-07T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:50:07","slug":"queens-online-chess-festival-returns-for-its-5th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chessbangladesh.com\/?p=9231","title":{"rendered":"Queens\u2019 Online Chess Festival returns for its\u00a05th edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are thrilled to announce that the Queens\u2019 Online Chess Festival 2025 returns in March for its&nbsp;5th edition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Queens\u2019 Online Chess Festival is a series of continental women\u2019s online blitz tournaments, open to all female chess players worldwide. Our goal is to create&nbsp;a special opportunity for all female players, no matter the location, age or level \u2013 to come together and participate in this unique event for women\u2019s chess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The registration is&nbsp;<strong>free of charge<\/strong>&nbsp;and the event will take place online on the platform&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tornelo.com\/\">Tornelo<\/a>, from March 1-28, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sections of the Festival&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Festival consists of two competitions:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Queens\u2019 Women Open Tournament<\/strong>\u00a0(open to all female participants with FIDE ID). Continental qualifying events running from the 1st till 9th of Match and Semi-Final and Final scheduled on March 16th and 28th, respectively;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Unrated Princesses\u2019 tournaments\u00a0<\/strong>(female players with no FIDE rating) Qualifiers for \u201cEast\u201d and \u201cWest\u201d with Finals in groups U9, U11, U13, U15 &amp; U17 (for U17 \u2013 born on 1.1.2008 or later). The qualification stage is scheduled for March 15th, and Finals will be held on March 28th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The winner of The Queen Festival Chess Tournament will be invited to the 46th World Chess Olympiad 2026 in Uzbekistan.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;The hotel accommodation for 3 nights full board (if the winner is U18, then accompanying person can also stay in the hotel with full board). The official Cup award ceremony for the Queens\u2019 Festival 2025 will take place during the Olympiad 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The Queen Festival Chess Tournament offers a prize fund of 1000 euros.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;The first-place winner will receive 500 euros, the second-place winner will receive 300 euros, and the third-place winner will receive 200 euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner of each Qualification in the Queens\u2019 Festival tournaments: Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe, will receive a physical trophy and the title of the Queens\u2019 Festival Continental Queen. The winner of the Princess Festival will receive a physical trophy.&nbsp;Additionally \u2013 each participant will receive an electronic certificate of participation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first ten winners in all qualification tournaments will be entitled to two 45-minute&nbsp;<strong>training sessions with Women Grandmasters.&nbsp;<\/strong>Details to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Queens\u2019 Women Open Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration form:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/fwespf37anAfSFvj9\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/fwespf37anAfSFvj9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Registration deadlines:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fide.com\/upload\/29443\/6b529ef8fbe49060e47eb74a29f8a23d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The qualification tournaments and semi-finals will be 9 or 11-round Swiss tournaments with 3+2 time control, depending on the number of participants, while the final will be a round-robin with 5+5 time control (7 rounds).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/chessbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chessbangladesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-14.png 1000w, https:\/\/chessbangladesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-14-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/chessbangladesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-14-768x435.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Unrated Princesses\u2019 Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration form:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/zNX9Jo7EbFemkzwm6\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/zNX9Jo7EbFemkzwm6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Registration deadline: March 8th 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unrated players U17 (born on 01.01.2008 or later) can play in both the Queens\u2019 Women\u2019s Open tournament and the Unrated Princesses\u2019 tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are looking forward to your registrations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/docs\/regulations\/Regulations%20Queens%20Festival%202025.pdf\">Regulations-Queens-Festival-2025 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIDE Commission for Women&#8217;s Chess official website:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wom.fide.com\/\">wom.fide.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce that the Queens\u2019 Online Chess Festival 2025 returns in March for its&nbsp;5th edition! 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