The Indian capital New Delhi will be the host city for the third leg of the four-stage FIDE Women’s Grand Prix which will be played from March 24 to April 5, 2023.
It will be a 12-player round-robin tournament with some of the strongest women players in the field. The participants are:
- GM Humpy Koneru (India, 2576)
- GM Aleksandra Goryachkina (FIDE, 2576)
- GM Kateryna Lagno (FIDE, 2560)
- GM Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia, 2525)
- GM Harika Dronavalli (India, 2511)
- GM Zhansaya Abdumalik (Kazakhstan, 2497)
- GM Nino Batsiashvili (Georgia, 2489)
- WGM Zhu Jiner (China, 2489)
- IM Polina Shuvalova (FIDE, 2484)
- GM Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany, 2474)
- IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kazakhstan, 2440)
- IM Rameshbabu Vaishali (India, 2433).
Ukrainian Grandmasters Anna and Mariya Muzychuk withdrew from the event and have been replaced by Nino Batsiashvili and Vaishali Rameshbabu.
The time control for the tournament is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. The total prize fund for each one of the four events is โฌ80,000, with another โฌ80,000 being distributed among the top eight players in the overall standings for the Grand Prix series.
Tournament schedule:
| 24 March | 20:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| 25 March | 15:00 | Round 1 |
| 26 March | 15:00 | Round 2 |
| 27 March | 15:00 | Round 3 |
| 28 March | 15:00 | Round 4 |
| 29 March | 15:00 | Round 5 |
| 30 March | 15:00 | Round 6 |
| 31 March | N/A | Free day |
| 1 April | 15:00 | Round 7 |
| 2 April | 15:00 | Round 8 |
| 3 April | 15:00 | Round 9 |
| 4 April | 15:00 | Round 10 |
| 5 April | 13:00 | Round 11 |
| 5 April | 19:00 | Closing ceremony |
The playing venue of the tournament is New Delhi’s Leela Ambience Convention Hotel.
Overall Grand Prix standings after Astana and Munich events:
| Rank | Name | Astana | Munich | New-Delhi | Leg 4 | Points |
| 1 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | 90 | 160 | 250 | ||
| 2 | Zhu, Jiner | 110 | 65 | 175 | ||
| 3 | Lagno, Kateryna | 160 | – | 160 | ||
| 4 | Abdumalik, Zhansaya | 80 | 65 | 145 | ||
| 5-6 | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | 130 | – | 130 | ||
| 5-6 | Koneru, Humpy | – | 130 | 130 | ||
| 7 | Tan, Zhongyi | 60 | 65 | 125 | ||
| 8 | Dzagnidze, Nana | – | 110 | 110 | ||
| 9 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | 30 | 65 | 95 | ||
| 10 | Dronavalli, Harika | – | 90 | 90 | ||
| 11 | Wagner, Dinara | 60 | 10 | 70 | ||
| 12-13 | Vaishali, Rameshbabu | 60 | – | 60 | ||
| 12-13 | Kashlinskaya, Alina | 30 | 30 | 60 | ||
| 14 | Muzychuk, Mariya | – | 40 | 40 | ||
| 15 | Assaubayeva, Bibisara | 30 | – | 30 | ||
| 16 | Muzychuk, Anna | – | 20 | 20 | ||
| 17 | Shuvalova, Polina | 10 | – | 10 |
