FIDE Women's World Championship

The 2017 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship, held from February 11 to March 3 in Tehran, Iran, features 64 players in a series of knockout matches. The early rounds are two games each, plus a tiebreak if necessary. The final is a match of four games, plus a possible tiebreak, with the winner declared Women's World Champion. The prize fund is USD $450,000 with the winner taking home $60,000. Players receive 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with a 30-second increment from move one. The tiebreaks consist of two 25 min + 10-sec increment rapid games, then if needed two additional 10+10 games, two 5+3 blitz games and finally a single Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw counts as a win for Black. Official website: tehran2017.fide.com