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2025 Cairns Cup: Carissa Yip vs. Alice Lee | Round 9 – ChessTerra.com

2025 Cairns Cup: Carissa Yip vs. Alice Lee | Round 9

June 18, 2025 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Saint Louis Chess ClubWed, June 18, 2025 12:30amURL:
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Live from the World Chess Hall of Fame, ten of the world’s best female chess players compete in the fifth Cairns Cup, a classical round robin event (players below). Today is the final round in regulation, and features Carissa Yip vs. Alice Lee. The winner is the Cairns Cup champion and earns a grandmaster norm! Yip achieves these with a draw. Join GM Yasser Seirawan, IMs Nazi Paikidze & Almira Skripchenko, and WGM Katerina Nemcova for the move-by-move.

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ROUND 9 | 40 Moves in 90 Min. Incr. 30 Sec. / / 30 Min. Incr. 30 Sec.
Carissa Yip (5.5) vs. Alice Lee (5)
Harika Dronavalli (4.5) vs. Alina Kashlinskaya (4)
Mariya Muzychuk (3) vs. Koneru Humpy (4.5)
Nana Dzagnidze (4) vs. Tan Zhongyi (3)
Nino Batsiashvili (3) vs. Bibisara Assaubayeva (3.5)

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