Fide Women’s World Cup 2025: Historic All-India Final Between Humpy and Divya | Game 1 Drawn | FIDE Women’s World Cup: Hampi-Divya’s first game draw, final match between two Indian players for the first time

The first game of the FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025 final was a draw between Koneru Hampi and Divya Deshmukh in Batumi, Georgia. This is the first time that two Indian players are face to face in the final of this tournament. Divya tried to make a win within 25 tricks, but Hampi took advantage of Divya’s small mistakes and made the game draw.

The second game will be played on Sunday, in which Hampi will play with white pieces. If this match was also on par, the winner will be decided through short time in the tiebreaker.

World Rapid Champion Hampi is considered to be heavy despite this draw, as she played with black pieces in the first game. In this classical chess format of two games, Hampi will get the benefit of white pieces in the next and final game.

Hampi defeated Tingji Lei in the semi -finals Hampi defeated China’s Tingji Lei in the tiebreaker in the semi -finals and made it to the finals. The first two arms in the tiebreaker were 15–15 minutes, including extra time. After this, the next two arms were 10-10 minutes. Lei won the first game, but Hampi overcome the difficult situation in the second bet and the match equalized. In the third set of the tiebreaker, Hampi defeated Lei by performing brilliantly in the first game with white pieces.

He needed only one draw to reach the finals, but he also won the second bet and entered the title match. Earlier, both classical games were drawn, after which a tiebreaker was held on Thursday. Hampi had white pieces in the second game, but she could not distinguish Lei’s strong rescue.

Chinese players Tingji Lei and Indian chase player Hampi during the tie breaker.

Divya defeated former world champion

Divya defeated former world champion Tan Zhongyi 1.5–0.5 in the semi-finals. The 19 -year -old Divya won 101 tricks in the first game playing with white pieces. He forced Zhongyi to make mistakes by constantly pressurizing the middle game.

Divya’s position was strong even after Queen’s exchange, although Jongyi tried to return to a time and took an edge. But in the lack of time, Jhongyi went wrong, taking advantage of which Divya was successful in winning with the lead of two pawns.

Playing with black pieces in the first game, Divya adopted a balanced strategy and draws the game. Jhongyi started with the ‘Queen’s Gambit Diclind’ opening, in which Divya maintained balance with the swap of the pieces. In the end, both of them had one stay, one small pawn (bishop/night), and three pawns in the same part, causing the game draw.

Four women players of India made it to the quarter -finals For the first time in this tournament, four women players of India Koneru Hampi, Harika Dronavalli, R.K. Vaishali, and Divya Deshmukh made it to the quarter -finals, a historical achievement for Indian chess.