6/13/2025 – Carissa Yip, US Women's Champion in 2021, 2023 and 2024, had a disappointing start to the Cairns Cup, losing one game and drawing another. However, in round three, she secured her first victory against Nino Batsiashvili, albeit with a touch of luck. The other four games in the round ended in draws, leaving Alice Lee as the sole leader with 2.5/3. | Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club
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"Luck comes and goes," said Carissa Yip, a mathematics and computer science student at Stanford University, philosophically reflecting on her victory against Nino Batsiashvili. The game could indeed have ended differently.
29...Nxf2!Black has played boldly for the attack
and now logically continues with a sacrifice.30.Kxf2Qh2+31.Ke3?
A mistake that could have cost White the game.White had to play31.Kf1
after which Black should have given a perpetual withQh1+32.Kf2Qh2+33.Kf1Qh1+31...Qxg3?Black returns the favor.With31...Qxb2!Black
could have won, for example,32.Rd3Qg233.Qg4Rxa4and Black has a
crushing attack and three pawns for the piece.32.Rf1g5?Black
continues logically, but overlooks a poisonous counterattack.Better would
have been32...Rf4and Black still has sufficient compensation for the
sacrificed piece.33.Ke2!Now White is winning.g434.Rg1gxf3+35.Kf1Qxg1+36.Kxg1f2+37.Kf1Kh738.Rg3b539.Qg4Rg640.Qf51–0
Yasser Seirawan interviews Carissa Yip after the game
The four other games of the round ended all in draws. Nana Dzagnidze, playing black against Alice Lee, surprised her opponent with a double fianchetto in the Grünfeld Defence, but despite this interesting opening experiment, the game quickly levelled out and soon ended in a draw.
Alice Lee at the start of her game against Nana Dzagnidze | Poto: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club
Harika Dronavalli and Mariya Muzychuk also drew without much excitement. Humpy Koneru had good chances against Alina Kashlinskaya in a sharp rook endgame with opposite-coloured bishops, but she failed to capitalise on them. Bibisara Assaubayeva could also have caused Tan Zhongyi more problems in the endgame.
Alina Kashlinskaya (right) and Humpy Koneru discussing their game | oto: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club
Johannes FischerJohannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".
6/9/2025 – The Cairns Cup returns to Saint Louis for its fifth edition, featuring ten of the world's leading female players in a nine-round classical tournament. With a record prize fund of $250,000 and a playoff in place to decide any tie for first, the event continues to highlight elite women's chess. Top seeds include Tan Zhongyi, Humpy Koneru, Bibisara Assaubayeva and Nana Dzagnidze. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
– The decision in the Cairns Cup, one of the strongest women’s tournaments of the year, will come today in the ninth and final round, in the direct encounter between Carissa Yip and Alice Lee. After eight rounds, Yip leads with 5.5 out of 8, half a point ahead of Alice Lee, who has scored 5 points from 8 games. This means a draw will be enough for Yip, who has White, to win the tournament. Harika Dronavalli and Humpy Koneru share third and fourth place with 4.5 out of 8, but no longer have a chance to win the event, regardless of the outcome between Yip and Lee. | Follow the action live starting at 19.00 CEST (13.00 ET, 22.30 IST)
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