The European Senior Women Chess Championship 2024 is going to take place from October 24 to November 3 in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. The official hotel and the venue of the event is Bella Italia EFA Village.
The European Senior Women Chess Championship 2024 will be played in two age categories: 50+ and 65+. Each Championship will be played in 9 rounds, Swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
The top players in the over 50 group are WGM Tatiana Grabuzova, WGM Marina Makropoulou, Daniela Iosif-Hoellenriegel, and WFM Olga Birkholz. In the O65 group top seeded is the legendary GM Nona Gaprindashvili.
Recently: India won Gaprindashvili Cup 2024 / India won Gaprindashvili Cup 2022
More ECU events: European Chess Club Cup 2024 / European Individual Chess Championship 2024
European Senior Women Chess Championship 2024 O50 participants
| W50 | Name | FED | Rtg |
| WGM | Grabuzova Tatiana | ESP | 2169 |
| WGM | Makropoulou Marina | GRE | 2082 |
| Iosif-Hoellenriegel Daniela | GER | 2010 | |
| WFM | Birkholz Olga | GER | 1975 |
| WFM | Baliuniene Margarita | LTU | 1930 |
| Ni Polina | LAT | 1856 | |
| Novak Simona | SLO | 1821 | |
| Storkebaum Ulrike | GER | 1821 | |
| Nikolenko Larysa | UKR | 1815 | |
| Haustein Heike | GER | 0 |
European Senior Women Chess Championship 2024 O65 participants
| W65 | Name | FED | Rtg |
| GM | Gaprindashvili Nona | GEO | 2243 |
| WIM | Burchardt Brigitte | GER | 2101 |
| WFM | Kierzek Mira | GER | 1967 |
| Buriene Regina | LTU | 1852 | |
| WIM | Dubois Martine | MNC | 1807 |
