The Women's Blitz World Championship: Natalia Zhukova Has Silver and Anna Muzychuk Has Bronze

Время публикации: 05.06.2012 18:04 | Последнее обновление: 05.06.2012 18:04

The Women's Blitz World Championship has just ended in Batumi. The tournament was held as a 15-round Swiss. The Russian Valentina Gunina (the European Champion in classical chess) secured the first place with a round to spare. Gunina won in the final round as well (against Bela Khotenashvili) and scored the total of 13 points out of 15. It's an unqualified success!

Natalia Zhukova and Anna Muzychuk were 2.5 points behind. The Ukrainian took the second place and the former representative of Ukraine Muzychuk was third, according to the tie-break criteria.

The final table

The news about the developments of today's seven rounds, as well as the photos and diagrams, were published on the Chess-News Twitter page. The latest tweets also show on the main page of our site.

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