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Congratulations to the new FIDE World Junior Girls Chess Champion WIM Anna Shukhman! 🏆
She secured the title with 5 straight wins in the last rounds! 😮
The games: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-junior-chess-championship-2025--girls/bjU4HJBP
Happy International Women's Day! 🥳
Let's celebrate together in our thematic Women's Day Arena today at 14:00 UTC, with all games starting from a position of Judit Polgár's famous win against Vishy Anand in 1999.
GM Zhu Jiner is the overall winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 and, together with runner-up GM Aleksandra Goryachkina, secured a spot in the next Women's Candidates Tournament! 🎉
While GM Anna Muzychuk won the final event in Großlobming, Austria, she couldn't overtake Goryachkina in the overall standings to qualify for the Candidates.
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-grand-prix-202425--austria/0eZnPsBD
📷 Abhilash / FIDE & Niki Riga / FIDE
Ju Wenjun won her fourth game in a row with her victory over Tan Zhongyi in Game 8 of the Women's World Championship! Now she only needs to draw one of the remaining four games to become a five-time World Champion.
Read our recap blog and replay the game with annotations by WGM Petra Papp.
Congratulations to GM José Martínez Alcántara for winning our Blitz Titled Arena July 2025! 🏆
IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher took 2nd place, ahead of IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján in 3rd place.
➡️ https://lichess.org/tournament/jul25bta
