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5th Cairns Cup R5: Carissa Yip beats Nana Dzagnidze

by Shahid Ahmed - 15/06/2025

IM Carissa Yip (USA) scored the sole victory of the fifth round at 5th Cairns Cup 2025. She defeated GM Nana Dzagnidze (GEO) after finding the correct sacrifice. Her follow through was not precise which delayed her win. GM Koneru Humpy played a solid draw against IM Alice Lee (USA). GM Harika Dronavalli had a 17-move quick draw against GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN). Humpy, Harika and Alice are still in the lead 3.5/5. They are closely followed by IM Alina Kashlinskaya (POL) at 3/5 and IM Carissa Yip (USA) 2.5/5. Today is the sole rest day. Round 6 starts tomorrow Monday 16th June at 12 p.m. local time, 10:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club

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The legend - Garry Kasparov checking out the game between IM Carissa Yip and GM Nana Dzagnidze | Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club
Interview with IM Alice Lee (USA) | Video: Saint Louis Chess Club

IM Alice Lee (USA) played a solid draw against GM Koneru Humpy | Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club

GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN) had a quick 17-move draw against GM Harika Dronavalli | Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club

Yip - Dzagnidze: 1-0

IM Carissa Yip (USA, 2431) had beaten GM Nana Dzagnidze (GEO, 2505) only once out of their three Classical rated games. The remaining two were won by the Georgian. Carissa scored her second win against the GM in this round.

Position after 26...Qg5

White correctly found 27.Nxe6+! fxe6 28.Qxe6 Ne5 now 29.f4 is what White needed to play before trading the rooks. Instead, 29.Rxd8 was played first and the win got delayed.

IM Carissa Yip (USA) defeated GM Nana Dzagnidze (GEO) to move to 2.5/5 | Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club

GM Nino Batsiashvili (GEO) - GM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club

GM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ) - IM Alina Kashlinskaya (POL): 0.5-0.5 | Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club

GM Maurice Ashley (USA) rang the bell to signal the start of Round 5 | Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club

Replay live stream

Replay Round 5 live commentary by GM Yasser Seirawan (USA), IMs Nazi Paikidze (USA) and Almira Skripchenko (FRA), and WGM Katerina Nemcova (USA) | Video: Saint Louis Chess Club

Round 5 results

IM Carissa Yip (USA) scored the sole win of Round 5 | Graphic: Saint Louis Chess Club

Standings after Round 5

GM Koneru Humpy, GM Harika Dronavalli and IM Alice Lee (USA) are still in the lead 3.5/5 | Graphic: Saint Louis Chess Club

Round 6 pairings

Round 6 pairings | Graphic: Saint Louis Chess Club

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.

Schedule | Source: Official site

Total prize fund

The total prize fund is US$ 250000. The top three prizes are $60000, $50000 and $40000.

Prize details | Source: Official site

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.

Links

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Tournament Regulations

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