Lichess was offering a stay stream for every single day of the Girls’s World Championship on our Twitch or YouTube channels with our hosts GM Toms Kantāns and WIM Jesse February, joined by a rotating panel of visitors.
Moreover, we lined each sport in our weblog, with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea for video games 1-6 and WGM Petra Papp for video games 7-9.
The annotations by WGM Petra Papp for Sport 9 may be discovered right here.
Lichess has additionally run participant profiles on GM Ju Wenjun and GM Tan Zhongyi, and revealed a Match Preview forward of the match.
Movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZI9vkumOPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=916dVGSOj00
Annotations by WGM Petra Papp
https://lichess.org/examine/5bQdsZ7u/pBnxlWC7#0
Match Rating
Match Recap
With the 2 gamers testing the waters – largely as to be anticipated in a World Championship match – in a somewhat uneventful sport 1, Tan was the primary one to attain a win, in sport 2, by exploiting her opponent’s mistake within the rook endgame. Ju was in a position to equalize the rating within the very subsequent sport by capitalizing her higher endgame place, and her opponent’s errors in dealing with an already tough place. The whole lot pointed in the direction of a somewhat shut match, with decisive video games to be anticipated, after sport 4 draw, nonetheless Ju was in a position to go on a powerful four-wins streak, getting the match to a rating of 6-2, and requiring solely a draw to say the title, which she was in a position to safe in sport 9. On this sudden flip, Ju was in a position to convincingly obtain her fifth Girls’s World Championship title, with a closing rating of 6.5-2.5 (+5-1=3)
The 2025 FIDE Girls’s World Chess Championship trophy.
Anna Shtourman / FIDE
Sport 9 Recap
After a powerful four-wins streak, Ju wanted solely a draw to succeed in the required 6.5 factors and win the match. And that is precisely what occurred within the ninth – and in the end closing – sport of the match. Ju, all through the entire match and till the very finish, remained devoted to her 1.e4, with the 2 gamers coming into a Rossolimo, albeit a special variation than in sport 7. In the present day, Ju determined to go together with the principle line, 5.Re1 (as a substitute of 5.d4), with Tan replying …Nd4. That is the second hottest transfer within the positions (though far much less frequent than a6), and can be utilized to create an imbalance within the pawn construction. Ju approached the place with a Na3-Nc2 maneuver, leading to an remoted d-pawn for her. Tan appeared to be effectively inside her preparation, having 1:25 on her clock in comparison with her opponent’s 1:08 after 15 strikes, regardless of having entered comparatively uncharted paths.
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The handshake earlier than the sport.
Anna Shtourman / FIDE
After all of the exchanges, the ensuing place was fairly stable and equal for white. The remoted d pawn may appear like a weak spot – and certainly it’s a goal black will intention for – nonetheless even when Tan captures it, she will not be capable of maintain onto the additional materials. Ju’s superior piece placement and exercise, with the sunshine sq. bishop focusing on the lengthy diagonal and the rooks prepared to hitch the sport, whereas Tan nonetheless wants just a few strikes to untangle and develop hers, could be enough to shortly get the pawn again. Certainly after 17…Nxd4, 18.Rd1 forces black to play e5 and get a pawn on d4 on the finish of the road. After all that may very well be a power in numerous eventualities, nonetheless with no items able to assist it, black can management it and seize it again.
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Tan wanted to win all the remaining 4 video games to remain within the match.
Anna Shtourman / FIDE
With the queens additionally exchanged, Ju and Tan enter a place with two rooks, a light-weight squared bishop, and no exploitable weak spot on both camp. This might solely favour Ju, who solely needed to additional simplify the place with out the necessity for any pointless dangers, and safe the draw, along with the title. 23. Bd5 was step one in the direction of this plan, aiming to in the end alternate the bishop, and if doable a pair of rooks, whereas stopping any counterplay concepts by Tan. Purpose which was, just a few strikes later achieved
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The five-time Girls’s World Chess Champion: Ju Wenjun.
Anna Shtourman / FIDE
Within the ensuing rook endgame, no aspect may realistically push to make any progress, and the sport resulted in a draw just a few strikes later, with Ju attaining her fifth Girls’s World Chess Championship in her profession.
