After a battle that lasted over 5 hours and spanned 87 strikes, World Champion Ju Wenjun managed to win sport 3 and draw degree within the 2025 FIDE Girls’s World Chess Championship match in opposition to compatriot Tan Zhongyi. Each Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi have worn the ladies’s world championship crown beforehand, however they weren’t the one girls’s world champions current within the taking part in corridor on Sunday! Former world champions Zhu Chen and Xu Yuhua, the second and third girls’s world champions from China, have been additionally in attendance to make the ceremonial first strikes. Chen is the present FIDE Secretary whereas Yuhua is the Secretary Common of the Chinese language Chess Affiliation.
Sunday’s outcome implies that the rating within the Girls’s World Chess Championship stands at 1.5-1.5 after three video games.
How sport 3 performed out
In sport 2, Ju Wenjun had dedicated an endgame blunder to permit Tan to take a 1.5-0.5 lead.
Sport 3 featured a repeat of the primary sport’s Sicilian, the place the World Champion launched 3.c4, the Kramnik Variation, a uncommon sideline often seen on the highest degree, together with through the Carlsen-Caruana World Championship match. It was a curious selection, as statistics are likely to favor Black on this line. Tan Zhongyi paused to think about her response, and shortly the gamers entered a very uncharted place. It was clear that each had exited residence preparation, as they started utilizing vital time on their strikes.
Black dedicated a essential error with 60…Bc6? The concept of buying and selling the rooks was appropriate, however the execution was flawed. It was important to not take away safety from f7-pawn and whereas retaining White’s king at bay with 60…Re2! The bottom line is to satisfy 61.Kg5 with 61…Re4! As performed, after 61.Kg5, hassle loomed. 61…Ra4 didn’t the intermediate 62.Be5+, and after 62…Ke7 63.Rb2, White preserved the rooks – an important element, as a pure opposite-colored bishop endgame would probably finish in a draw. From there, Ju’s plan was clear: her king superior to g7, the rook stayed lively, and the c-pawn turned a rising menace. Black, in contrast, had lively counterplay. Her weak f7-pawn and the advancing c-pawn have been an excessive amount of to deal with.
(With inputs from FIDE)