For the second time in a row, Vaishali Rameshbabu received the FIDE Ladies’s Grand Swiss title, a victory which additionally earned her a spot within the FIDE Ladies’s Candidates match. Within the three editions that the occasion has been held, Vaishali has now received the title twice with Lei Tingjie profitable the inaugural version in 2021.
The FIDE Grand Swiss had prize cash of $90,000 (roughly Rs 79 lakh) on supply for the winner of the open part whereas the prize cash on supply for the ladies’s winner was $40,000.
This meant that Anish Giri, who received the open part with a rating of 8/11, pocketed the $90,000. Vaishali’s triumph, in the meantime, ought to have earned her a sum of $40,000 (roughly Rs 35 lakh). Nevertheless, because of her ending on the identical variety of factors as second-place finisher Kateryna Lagno, each gamers will break up the prize cash in half as per FIDE’s guidelines for the Grand Swiss match.
“All prize cash shall be divided equally between gamers with the identical remaining rating,” FIDE notes in its laws for the match.
In actual fact, simply by profitable this yr, Anish Giri earned extra prize cash than all of the three ladies’s winner from three editions put collectively.
Vaishali Rameshbabu with Praggnanandhaa and their mom Nagalakshmi after Vaishali’s win in spherical 6 of the FIDE Ladies’s Grand Swiss in Samarkand. (PHOTO: Michal Walusza / FIDE)
The prize cash this yr for the 2 Grand Swiss tournaments, performed side-by-side, had been up from the final version in 2023. A FIDE assertion earlier than the beginning of the occasion in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand famous: The Open prize fund rose from $4,60,000 to $6,25,000, a 36% enhance, whereas the Ladies’s fund noticed a good larger leap, from $1,40,000 to $2,30,000—up 64%.
Right here’s how the prize cash has elevated:
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“A prize fund enhance of this scale isn’t nearly numbers—it’s a press release. However it’s not simply concerning the prizes. 12 months after yr, FIDE is delivering on our promise to offer extra alternatives and higher situations for the broader vary of gamers,” FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky had mentioned earlier than the beginning of the occasion.
Vaishali Rameshbabu along with her mom Nagalakshmi and Kateryna Lagno after Vaishali’s win in spherical 6 of the FIDE Ladies’s Grand Swiss in Samarkand. (PHOTO: Michal Walusza / FIDE)
It have to be famous that the Grand Swiss is an Open occasion, which implies any feminine participant who meets the qualification standards, can compete within the occasion. This yr, among the many 116 contenders in FIDE Grand Swiss had been two feminine grandmasters, India’s Divya Deshmukh and Aleksandra Goryachkina. The ladies’s occasion, in the meantime, had 56 gamers.
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