5th Cairns Cup R4: Humpy and Harika score to join the lead with Alice
Two of the best Indian women - GM Koneru Humpy and GM Harika Dronavalli won their respective games in Round 4 of 5th Cairns Cup 2025. Humpy got the better of GM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ) who played weak according to the former. Humpy exchanged her two minor pieces for a rook and two pawns in the endgame to gain decisive advantage. Harika dominated with her rook and bishop pair against GM Nana Dzagnidze's (GEO) rook, bishop and knight in the endgame. GM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR) scored her first win of the tournament versus IM Carissa Yip (USA). The sole leader, IM Alice Lee (USA) held the 16th Women's World Champion, GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN) to a well contested draw. Round 5 starts today at 12 p.m. local time, 10:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club
Alice draws against Zhongyi
Both GM Koneru Humpy and GM Harika Dronavalli scored a win each to join the lead with IM Alice Lee (USA). They are at 3/4 each. IM Alina Kashlinskaya (POL) is the only player at 2.5/4.
Humpy - Assaubayeva: 1-0
GM Koneru Humpy (2543) played three Classical rated games against GM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ, 2509). They had all three possible results. The last game was played in February this year, Humpy won that game. This time also, the reigning World Rapid Women Champion, repeated the same.
A few erroneous moves by Black 22...Rh5 23.g4 Rhh8 24.h4 Na6?! 25.g5 Nd7 created an opportunity for White 26.Bxe6! is a nice sacrifice fxe6 27.Nxe6 Nc5 28.Nxd8 Bxd8 29.Be5 White exchanged two minor pieces for a rook and two pawns because the resultant endgame is winning thanks to the extra pawns on the kingside. 29...Ne6 30.f4 Rf8 31.Rhf1 Bc7 32.Bxc7 Nexc7 33.f5 gxf5 34.exf5 Nc5 35.f6 and it's over.
Dzagnidze - Harika: 0-1
GM Harika Dronavalli (2483) defeated GM Nana Dzagnidze (GEO, 2505) earlier this year in Nicosia Grand Prix. In fact, Harika hasn't lost to the Georgian GM since February 2016 in a Classical rated game. That statistic remained unchanged. In a difficult rook and two minor piece endgame ,Harika's bishop pairs were much superior compared to her opponent's bishop and knight when the the latter was pinned, rendering it motionless.
41.Rc3? Ke6-+ 42.Rc1 Rh7 43.Rc2 White just moving her rook did not help the position Be4 44.f5+ gxf5 45.Rc1 Bxg3+ 46.Kxg3 Rh3+ 47.Kf4 g3 and Black won.
Mariya - Yip
15...Rad8 allowed 16.f5 gxf5 17.exf5 Bd7 18.Bxf6 Bxf6 19.Nd5 Bg7 20.f6 Bh6 21.Ne7+ Kh8 22.Nd4 Rg8 23.Nxg8 Rxg8 GM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR, 2492) played slight imprecisely which allowed IM Carissa Yip (USA, 2431) to get back in the game and her win got delayed.
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Round 4 results
Standings after Round 4
Round 5 pairings
Schedule
Every day Round starts at 12 p.m. local time, 10:30 p.m. IST. Only rest day is on Sunday 15th June 2025.
Total prize fund
The total prize fund is US$ 250000. The top three prizes are $60000, $50000 and $40000.
Format
It is a round-robin event with a Classical time control of 40 moves in 90 minutes + 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.
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