Two-time Russian Chess Champion Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina celebrates in the best possible way her “moment of grace”, yielding a seat on the stage of the next historical Women’s Candidates Tournament, which will be held in Kazan, Russia from May 29 to June 19, 2019. Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion and Rhodes Scholar 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), indeed, regretted to decline the invitation due to her master study at the University of Oxford, thus making room for Goryachkina, who was first reserve. Therefore, the final line-up will be as follows (in alphabetical order): Nana Dzagnidze, Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina, Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina, Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Lagno, Anna Olehivna Muzychuk, Mariya Olehivna Muzychuk, and 谭中怡 (Tán Zhōngyí).
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Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina. Photo © Sergey Bobylev/TASS.
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