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

Valentina Gunina is the strongest Blitz player of the world   

The second and deciding day of the Women's Blitz World Championship has started at 15.00 Moscow time. Here's the reminder of the standings after eight rounds:

Gunina - 8 points
А.Muzychuk, М.Muzychuk, Dzagnidze, Zhukova - 6 each
Huang Qian, Batsiashvili - 5.5 each

The Russian Valentina Gunina has just won the Women's Blitz World Championship in Batumi with a round to spare.

The first day of the Women's Blitz World Championship has started at 15.00 Moscow time in Batumi. 8 out of 15 rounds will be played today. The start of each round is every half an hour: the second round starts at 15.30, third at 16.00 and so on. You can follow live transmission of the first ten boards on the main page of Chess-News. The pairings and results are here.

Another World Championship is under way: among women in rapid and blitz      

The 1st round of the Women's World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship has started at 15:00 MSK Time in Batumi, Georgia. Among 50 participants who will fight in the competition there are legendary Maia Chiburdanidze, Nona Gaprindashvili and Nino Gurieli. The participants will play three rounds in the upcoming three days: at 15:00, 17:00 and 19:00, while the final day of the tournament will have only two rounds at 15:00 and 17:00. 

According to Chess-Results, up to now Ukrainian Women's national team had four players announced: Anna and Mariya Muzychuk, Anna Ushenina and Natalia Zhukova.

As we've already reported, Antoaneta Stefanova won the clear first place and the title at the Women's Rapid World Championship in Batumi, according to the results of the final round. The Bulgarian chess player's total result is 8.5 out of 11.