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Aleksandra Goryachkina of Russia won the 12th game of the World Championship match against the reigning champion Ju Wenjun, leaving the score 6:6 and forcing a rapid and (if necessary) blitz tiebreak.
In the tiebreak, the first two games were drawn, but the World Champion struck in the third game with white, then narrowly held on for a draw with black to win the match and retain her title.
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The tiebreak begins in Vladivostok at 15:30 local time, which is 6:30 CET and 12:30 AM EST and consists of four 25 minute (plus 10 seconds per move) rapid games, followed, if necessary, by up to five sets of blitz games (5+3) and, if these still fail to break the stand-off and Armageddon game.
| St | White | EloW | Black | EloB | Res | Rnd | id |
|---|
| Gruenwald,S | 2101 | Jetzl,J | 2146 |  | 7.4 | 2273322 | |
| Gschiel,A | 2317 | Leitgeb,J | 2313 |  | 7.2 | 2273320 | |
| Wendl,P | 2268 | Loretz,J | 1869 |  | 7.3 | 2273321 | |
 | Archan,E | 2048 | Hengl,P | 2205 |  | 7.5 | 2273324 |
 | Fitz,J | 1918 | Zaytsev,A | 2178 |  | 7.6 | 2273325 |
| Gold,T | 2066 | Balint,P | 2366 |  | 7.1 | 2273319 | |
| Nicolussi,H | 1999 | Benedikt,N | 1976 | | 7.1 | 2273355 | |
| Stickler,F | 2189 | Onipko,M | 1979 | | 7.2 | 2273356 | |
| Reichhuetter,R | 1916 | Pausweg,D | 2080 | | 7.3 | 2273358 | |
| Ortner,S | 1925 | Chen,C | 2021 | | 7.4 | 2273359 | |
| Martinovic,D | 1968 | Squasi,E | 1904 | | 7.5 | 2273361 | |
| Maier,T | 1915 | Zehetner,R | 1726 | 7.7 | 2273326 | ||
| Hake,N | 2054 | Pedevilla,L | 1925 | | 7.8 | 2273327 | |
| Kotliar,A | 1778 | Hyassat,M | 1868 | 7.1 | 2273337 | ||
| Wiessner,E | 1693 | Turdiyeva,M | 1740 | 7.1 | 2273373 | ||
| Knittel-Templ,P | 1555 | Wielander,M | 1738 | 7.2 | 2273339 | ||
| Wiessner,J | 1527 | Donets,A | 1579 | 7.2 | 2273374 | ||
| Grasberger,C | 1756 | Huber,E | - | 7.3 | 2273375 | ||
| Gaisberger,N | 1667 | Wurm,E | 1583 | 7.3 | 2273338 | ||
| Brunner,J | 1798 | Uprimny,N | 1690 | 7.4 | 2273340 | ||
| Zens,L | 1514 | Schirmbeck,K | 1556 | 7.4 | 2273378 | ||
| Brown,J | 1873 | Roessler,F | 1840 | 7.7 | 2273363 | ||
| Hahn,S | - | Prober,R | 2131 | | 7.8 | 2273364 | |
| Valmana Canto,J | 2385 | Pranav Vijay | 2252 | 4.1 | 2275780 | ||
| Yordanov,L | 2364 | Albornoz Cabrera,C | 2561 | 4.2 | 2275781 | ||
| Fier,A | 2534 | Centron Antuna,D | 2299 | 4.3 | 2275782 | ||
| Gonzalez Castillo,J | 2297 | Suleymenov,A | 2478 | 4.4 | 2275783 | ||
| Gomez Falagan,D | 2254 | Kanov,N | 2413 | 4.5 | 2275784 | ||
| Gumularz,S | 2604 | Vehi Bach,V | 2178 | 4.6 | 2275787 | ||
| Lopez Martinez,J | 2460 | Hernandez Leon,A | 2174 | 4.7 | 2275788 | ||
| Sierra Vallina,L | 2342 | Diez Fraile,D | 2116 | 4.8 | 2275790 | ||
| Perez Travieso,S | 2111 | Garcia Jimenez,S | 2241 | 4.9 | 2275791 | ||
| Romera Carrion,R | 1995 | Nomindalai Tumurbaatar | 2211 | 4.10 | 2275792 | ||
| Goncalves,S | 2248 | Mazon Menendez,J | 2032 | 4.11 | 2275793 | ||
| Talavera Garcia,S | 2024 | Aishwin Daniel | 2236 | 4.12 | 2275794 | ||
| Juan Lepp,J | 2015 | Gonzalez Lema,C | 2200 | 4.14 | 2275796 | ||
| Gomez Falagan,H | 2000 | Rodriguez Garcia,M | 2131 | 4.18 | 2275802 | ||
| Cuellar Montes,A | 2200 | Del Rosario Silva,D | 2013 | 4.13 | 2275795 | ||
| Pomes Marcet,J | 2187 | Diaz Rodriguez,J | 2006 | 4.15 | 2275797 | ||
| Rumbos Garcia,A | 2178 | Gonzalez Manchon,J | 1988 | 4.16 | 2275798 | ||
| Santos,A | 2152 | Siscar Conill,A | 1986 | 4.17 | 2275800 | ||
| Goncalves,G | 1871 | Polo Paz,A | 1608 | 4.19 | 2275803 | ||
| Tapia Pedraza,J | 1641 | Casadevall Mainau,I | 1685 | 4.20 | 2275804 | ||
| Keller,N | 1888 | Taizhanov,A | 1952 |  | 7.6 | 2273362 | |
| Abrahamyan,T | 2310 | Lee,A | 2386 |  | 3.2 | 1279479 |
 | Wang,I | 2348 | Johnson,D | 2362 |  | 1.1 | 2259232 |
| Benen,S | 2326 | Matros,A | 2326 | | 1.1 | 2259266 | |
| Horobetz,G | 2240 | Nguyen,J | 2186 | | 1.1 | 2259492 |
| Wang,T | 2355 | Macieja,B | 2520 | | 1.2 | 2259233 |
| Yang,D | 2127 | Vinod,A | 2222 | | 1.2 | 2259267 |
| Prince,M | - | Stefanov,E | 2355 | | 1.2 | 2259494 |
| Macovei,A | 2479 | Petenyi,T | 2266 | | 1.3 | 2259268 |
 | Chirilov,J | 2291 | Wu,A | 2206 | | 1.3 | 2259502 |
| Amburgy,R | 2266 | Panchanathan,M | 2458 | | 1.3 | 2259234 |
| Gauri,S | 2348 | Nagy,G | 2456 | | 1.4 | 2259235 | |
| Fierro Baquero,M | 2247 | Rios Gomez,C | 2382 | | 1.4 | 2259496 |
| Crump. Alexander J | 2049 | Yang,Q | 2229 | | 1.4 | 2259269 |
| Lee,A | 2389 | Putnam,L | 2419 | | 1.5 | 2259236 |
| Kaplan,A | 2342 | Das,A | 2195 | | 1.5 | 2259270 |
| Belenkaya,D | 2173 | Cherukuri,N | 2246 | | 1.5 | 2259497 |
Commentary by GM Nigel Short & WFM Eteri Kublashvili
