The 2021 FIDE Women’s World Cup will be played in 7 rounds, knock-out system, with 103 players and a prize pool of 676,000 dollars.
Most of the participants are already known with Canada (Zone 3.2) as the only remaining federation to run qualifiers in early June.
List of participants:
GM Kateryna Lagno (a qualifier from the Women’s World Championship 2018)
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (a qualifier from Women’s the World Championship 2018)
GM Mariya Muzychuk (a qualifier from the Women’s World Championship 2018)
WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya (U20 World Girls Chess Champion 2018)
WGM Polina Shuvalova (U20 World Girls Chess Champion 2019)
GM Hou Yifan (qualified by rating)