The other thriller of the day between Atalık and Chen reached a rook ending where black might have some winning chances due to white's weaker pawns and her connected passed pawns on the queen side. However, Atalık did not allow anything worse to happen and black did not succeed in improving the game. The outcome seemed to be a draw after the ongoing race between the passed pawns on different sides of the board, however, Chen played an unfortunate move, 52...Ra5, which seems to be a decisive mistake.

Ushenina and Dronavalli played a recently popular line where Ushenina captured f6 pawn which seemed risky and helped black to coordinate her pieces but Be6 seems to closer to decisiveness and in order to avoid a mating attack white had to enter a lost endgame which Dronavalli converted it into her second consecutive win.

When white allowed the move b4 in a typical open Sicilian position which came out of Najdorf, black started to have the initiative and black was the side to attack first and the Chinese player won her second consecutive game like Dronavalli.