7/14/2025 – 107 players started in the Women's World Cup, but only 32 of them made it to round three. With the exception of Aleksandra Goryachkina, the top favorites remain in the field. The top Chinese players Lei Tingjie, Zhu Jiner, and Tan Zhongyi all advanced comfortably to the fourth round without needing a tiebreak. However, players like Anna Muzychuk, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Harika Dronavalli will have to win their tiebreaks to advance to round four. | Photos: Anna Shtourman
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Top favourite Lei Tingjie easily reached the fourth round of the Women's World Cup with two victories against former world champion Antoaneta Stefanova. Zhu Jiner and Mariya Muzychuk achieved the same result against Aleksandra Maltsevskaya and Bella Khotenashvili respectively.
In her game against Stefanova, Tingjie did not take any major risks, yet still built a solid, superior position against her opponent's Pirc Defence, winning the game with surprising ease.
Lei Tingjie
Tan Zhongyi, the third player in the Chinese trio of favourites, drew her first game against Irina Bulmaga. Following her victory in the second round, she will join her compatriots in the next round.
Humpy Koneru started the third round with a draw against Klaudia Kulon, then winning her second game on Sunday. The Indian player is therefore also through to the fourth round.
Meruert Kamalidenova was the standout player of the second round after eliminating one of the favourites, Aleksandra Goryachkina. The Kazakh's winning streak continues. Her first game against the strong young Russian player, Anna Shukhman, ended in a draw. However, on Sunday, Kamalidenova won her second game and also reached the fourth round.
Interview with Meruert Kamalidenova
Umida Omonova also drew against Elnaz Kaliahmet before winning the second game. With this result, Leila Javakishvili also reached round four against the slight favourite Polina Shuvalova.
Divya Deshmukh won the first game against Teodora Injac and secured her place in round four with a draw in the second game.
Interview with Divya Deshmukh
Yuliia Osmak knocked out 15-year-old Chinese prodigy Lu Miaoyi with the same result.
Five of the 16 matches will continue in the play-offs on Monday. In the match between Agrawal Vantikai and Kateryna Lagno, Agrawal took the lead and Lagno equalised on Sunday.
Agrawal and Lagno
The match between Nana Dzagnidze and Valentina Gunina followed a similar pattern. After losing the first game, the Gunina had to win and played very aggressively with White against Dzagnidze's Caro-Kann defence — with success.
Meri Arabidze drew twice against Alexandra Kosteniuk, Anna Muzychuk drew twice against Yuxin Song, Harika Dronavalli drew twice against Stavroula Tsolakidou, and Vaishali also drew twice against Carissa Yip.
In this course, you’ll learn how to take the initiative against the London and prevent White from comfortably playing their usual system by playing 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 Nh5.
London System Powerbase 2026 is a database and contains in all 11 285 games from Mega 2026 and the Correspondence Database 2026, of which 282 are annotated.
The London System Powerbook 2026 is based on more than 410 000 games or game fragments from different opening moves and ECO codes; what they all have in common is that White plays d4 and Bf4 but does not play c4.
In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions.
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The Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation with 5.Bf4 has a great balance between positional play and sharp pawn pushes; and will be a surprise for your opponents while being easy to learn for you, as the key patterns are familiar.
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