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.
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