Five round one matches to be decided after rapid tiebreaks
Tiebreak matches of the 1st round of the World Women Chess Championship are ongoing! Here are a couple of photos of today’s matchups, and you can also follow the live updates on Chessdom.com.

Elisabeth Paehtz – Ilaha Kadimova

Natasa Bojkovic – Wenjun Ju

Natalia Zhukova – Katherine Rohonyan

Eva Moser – Lilit Mkrtchian

Sabina-Francesca Foisor

Natasa Bojkovic

Wenjun Ju

Bojkovic – Ju

Viktorija Chmilyte in the press room
After the round 1, game 2, there was a press conference with five players – Anna Muzychuk, Tatiana Kosintseva, Hoang Thanh Trangm Harika Dronavalli and Jilin Zhang (Katherine Rohonyan was absent).

Jilin Zhang

Harika Dronavalli and Jilin Zhang

FIDE PR Director Peter Rajchanyi moderating the conference