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Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:58 pm
by Mick Norris
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The 2025 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, featuring a highly anticipated rematch between two of China’s top Grandmasters: the reigning Champion, Ju Wenjun, and the Challenger, Tan Zhongyi, is the culmination of the FIDE Women’s World Championship Cycle 2023-2025. The title of the women’s World Chess Champion is decided in 12 games and a tiebreak in case of a tie.
The title match is scheduled to take place from April 1 to 23, 2025, across two Chinese cities: Shanghai and Chongqing.
The time control for each game is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
First game appears to be Thursday 3 April
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 3:23 pm
by Jon D'Souza-Eva
Their first match in 2018, when Zhongyi Tan was the World Champion, was quite exciting. Here is game 5 from that match:
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:49 am
by LawrenceCooper
Game 1 was drawn in 39 moves.
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:20 am
by Mick Norris
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:05 pm
by LawrenceCooper
Tan wins game 2 in 62 moves. A seemingly harmless rook ending that Tan won relatively comfortably.
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-wome ... u/Oi0E5C9E
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:41 pm
by Roger de Coverly
LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:05 pm
Tan wins game 2 in 62 moves. A seemingly harmless rook ending that Tan won relatively comfortably.
According to the lichess Stockfish, it went wrong in this position.
.. Ke8 is flagged as the major error with .. b4 suggested to be only slightly worse.
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:58 pm
by Mick Norris
Presumably this is to allow Ke7 after Rxb4?
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 2:08 pm
by LawrenceCooper
Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:41 pm
LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:05 pm
Tan wins game 2 in 62 moves. A seemingly harmless rook ending that Tan won relatively comfortably.
According to the lichess Stockfish, it went wrong in this position.
.. Ke8 is flagged as the major error with .. b4 suggested to be only slightly worse.
38.....Rf5 felt like a step in the wrong direction. Not a fatal mistake but making life more difficult.
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 5:57 pm
by Paul Cooksey
Really excellent commentary on the chess24
youtube of the R+P ending by Jovanka Houska and Judit Polgar. As you would expect since Judit told an anecdote about trying to find the mistakes in Smyslov's Rook Endings book when she was seven. Or possibly eight, but probably seven.
It was really difficult to defend at the moment Ju went Stockfish wrong. Judit blaming the defeat on the decision to move the defending rook from the b-file to the fifth rank even if, to use her analogy, there was still a possibility to pull the plane out of its dive before it crashed.
A very good day for Tan. Good technique and an excellent cardigan.
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 7:25 pm
by Mick Norris
Ju wins game 3
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:46 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
Game 4 is drawn in 80 moves, we are certainly getting our money's worth for effort at least in this match so far.
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:42 pm
by Mick Norris
Ju wins game 5
TWIC
Ju Wenjun took a 3-2 lead over Tan Zhongyi after winning the fifth game of he World Women's title defence. She had white and faced a Kan Sicilian, her 10.c5 novelty brought an immediate mistake and she was completely winning after 20 moves. Tan provided stout resistance after that but the objective assessment never changed and 59.Ne7+ brought about her resignation. This is the penultimate game before the match moves from Shanghai to Chongqing.
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:47 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
The trend with Black struggling in all the games is ended as Ju wins with that colour, and must be the pretty strong favourite now.
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 12:51 pm
by Paul Cooksey
Ju won again today. Her 5-2 lead looks unassailable in a 12 game match.
Tan does seem to be playing below her level since going behind. Hard to understand how she went from a healthy R+2B vs RNB to a losing RB v RN today.
Re: Women’s World Championship Match 1-23 April 2025
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 5:30 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
Tan getting her B stuck on a8 like that was a bit
