Queens Online Chess Festival – updated!

These are the players who qualified to play on behalf of England for the team tournament, which will be held on June 26 2022 —

Category A – Louise Head Louise
Category B – Meri Grigoryan
Category C – Rayelynn Posadas
Category D – Mae Catabay


The Queens Online Chess Festival 2022, a series of continental women’s online blitz tournaments, starts on June 5th 2022. Female players from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas will compete in the Continental Online Blitz Qualification Tournaments first, and those who qualify will advance to the Queens Online Individual and Team Finals. There are four entry categories – Category A: 2000 and higher; Category B: 1800-1999; Category C: 1600-1799; and Category D: < 1600, unrated. For a PDF of details click here. Qualification for the European stage takes place online on 19th June 2022 and the cutoff for applications is Friday 9th June 2022. Online entry can be found here and the fee for entry is £10.00.