Humpy and Harika set to face World's Top Women at 5th Cairns Cup
GM Koneru Humpy and GM Harika Dronavalli will face the world's top women at 5th Cairns Cup 2025 starting today. 16th Women's World Champion, GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN) is the defending champion. The remaining seven players are - GM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ), GM Nana Dzagnidze (GEO), GM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR), GM Nino Batsiashvili (GEO), IM Alina Kashlinskaya (POL), IM Carissa Yip (USA) and IM Alice Lee (USA). The ten-player strong round-robin tournament has a total prize fund of US$ 250000, an increase of $50000, 25% of total prize fund. The top three prizes are $60000, $50000 and $40000 each. Round 1 starts today at 12 p.m. local time, 10:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club
Fifth edition witnesses an increase of 25% total prize fund
Players
16th Women's World Champion and the defending champion of this event - GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN, 2546), two-time World Rapid Women's Champion - GM Koneru Humpy (2543), two-time World Blitz Women's Champion - GM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ, 2509), 38th Olympiad Women Gold medalist - GM Nana Dzagnidze (GEO, 2505),15th Women's World Champion - GM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR, 2492), 45th Olympiad Women Gold medalist - GM Harika Dronavalli (2483), 44th Olympiad individual Gold medalist - GM Nino Batsiashvili (GEO, 2462), European Individual Women's 2019 Champion - IM Alina Kashlinskaya (POL, 2459), three-time US Women's Champion - IM Carissa Yip (2431) and American Cup 2024 and 2025 winner - IM Alice Lee (USA, 2389).
Round 1 pairings
GM Zhongyi Tan - IM Alina Kashlinskaya
GM Koneru Humpy - GM Nana Dzagnidze
GM Bibisara Assaubayeva - GM Mariya Muzychuk
IM Alice Lee - GM Nino Batsiashvili
GM Harika Dronavalli - IM Carissa Yip
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Schedule
Every day Round starts at 12 p.m. local time, 10:30 p.m. IST. Only rest day is on Sunday 15th June 2025.
Total prize fund
The total prize fund is US$ 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.
Dr. Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield, cofounder of Saint Louis Chess Club, created Cairns Chess Queen award. The award is designed to encourage more female chess players from the United States to become Grandmasters. We will award $100,000 to any US female who earns the GM title – the overall GM title - in the next five years. The award will be given to up to five players, and eligibility will be strictly limited to female chess players who are American Citizens or who become American Citizens before earning the grandmaster title. Of course, GMs will be confirmed by FIDE.
Links
Saint Louis Chess Club: Official site, facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube
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