The organizers of Norway Chess just lately introduced their groundbreaking imaginative and prescient to host an all-female tremendous event in 2024 with circumstances equal to their annual top-level competitors.

The minds behind “the world’s strongest chess event” goal to deliver the identical stage of status to their new girls’s occasion, It’s going to function the highest feminine gamers, nationwide reside tv protection, and a prize fund equal to that of Norway Chess―in comparison with the customized of the ladies’s prize fund being roughly half that of different occasions.

The gender hole in chess could be very evident within the earnings distinction amongst high gamers. In 2022, GM Tan Zhongyi, the 2022 Ladies’s Speedy Champion and finalist of the Ladies’s Candidates, was the one feminine chess participant to earn over $100,000 in prize cash in comparison with 19 male rivals―11 of whom earned over $200,000.

Norway, a rustic the place gender equality is constantly bettering, ranks second on the earth at 87.9 % in accordance with the 2023 World Gender Hole Index―up three share factors from 2022. Benedicte Westre Skog, the Norway Chess challenge supervisor, shared their progress towards realizing their imaginative and prescient in One Step Nearer to Pioneering Gender Equality in Chess:

“Now, we’re nearer than ever earlier than and our confidence grows stronger that we are able to remodel our long-cherished dream right into a tangible actuality. The creation of an all-female tremendous event alongside Norway Chess is inside our grasp.…”

“Whereas we have now made exceptional strides, just a few extra sponsors stay to be secured. As soon as we accomplish that, we are able to eagerly transfer ahead with signing the world’s most proficient feminine chess gamers. The anticipation is palpable as we strategy this pivotal second.”

The FIDE Fee for Ladies’s Chess shared their help of those efforts as elevating the usual for chess total:

“By elevating the visibility and recognition of girls in chess, Norway Chess are signaling a brand new commonplace for the game as a complete. It’s essential to acknowledge that expertise and potential in chess transcend gender, and equal alternatives for feminine gamers needs to be fostered at each stage. By selling inclusivity, variety, and equal illustration, Norway Chess is sending a convincing message to the chess group and society at giant, emphasizing the significance of leveling the enjoying subject and dismantling gender-based obstacles.”

It’s essential to acknowledge that expertise and potential in chess transcend gender, and equal alternatives for feminine gamers needs to be fostered at each stage. 

FIDE Fee for Ladies’s Chess 

Of their name to motion for the occasion, Be part of Us in Being a Sport Changer for Ladies in Chess, the organizers share their perception that it’s going to encourage extra girls to turn into skilled chess gamers:

“We consider that making a event with the identical prize fund circumstances, the identical skilled companies, the identical TV protection, the identical enjoying venue, and so forth. as Magnus Carlsen and his rivals in Norway Chess, will contribute to a progress in curiosity for skilled chess amongst women and younger girls. It’s going to take time to see seen outcomes, however we should begin someplace and it’s about time girls have equal alternatives in sensible phrases as their male counterparts.”

In a stride in direction of attaining gender equality in chess, we’re on the verge of realising a groundbreaking imaginative and prescient – the creation of an all-female tremendous event, with the identical service, consideration and prize cash💪 ♛♛♛

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— Norway Chess (@NorwayChess) July 4, 2023