Women's Chess World Cup 2021

The format is a 7-round knockout event. 78 women play one another in the first round. The 39 that go through are joined in the second round by the top 25 seeds, who are given a bye for the first round. The losers of both semi-finals will play one another for third place.

Each round consists of two classical games with shorter tiebreaks as needed.^[2] Their time controls are as follows.

1. Two classical time limit games: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves with 30 minutes added for the further moves. Increment per move is 30 seconds.
2. If tied, two games of 25 minutes with 10 second increments per move.
3. If tied, two games of 10 minutes with 10 second increments per move.
4. If tied, two games of 5 minutes with 3 second increments per move.
5. If the match is still tied, a single armageddon chess game is played to decide the match, with draw odds to Black, meaning White must win but Black only needs to draw or win, to win the match. The players draw lots and the winner of the draw chooses their color. White receives 5 minutes, Black receives 4 minutes, and each player receives an extra 2 seconds per move beginning at move 61.

The total prize fund is US$676,250, with the first prize of US$50,000.^[2]

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	First round					Quarter-finals					Third round					Fourth round
	1	Aleksandra Goryachkina	w/o
	-	Bye
						1	Aleksandra Goryachkina
						65	Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova
	65	Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova	1½
	64	Carolina Luján	½
	33	Olga Badelka	2
	96	Jemal Ovezdurdiyeva	0
						33	Olga Badelka
						32	Ana Matnadze
	97	Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa Azhar	½
	32	Ana Matnadze	1½
	17	Natalia Pogonina	w/o
	-	Bye
						17	Natalia Pogonina
	81	Anastasya Paramzina
	48	Bhakti Kulkarni
	49	Aleksandra Maltsevskaya	1½
	80	Maili-Jade Ouellet	½
						49	Aleksandra Maltsevskaya
						16	Antoaneta Stefanova
	-	Bye
	16	Antoaneta Stefanova	w/o

• Chess World Cup 2021
• Women's World Chess Championship

FIDE World Cup 2021, official site, FIDE.