Thursday, August 31, 2023

The Witch and the Tsar

The recent attention paid by the Chess Federation of Russia to women’s successes on the domestic and international front must have warmed the heart of three-time Russian Women’s Champion Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina, since she — according to an official announcement by Executive Director of Chess Federation of Russia Alexander Vasilyevich Tkachev — changed her mind from her original plan to enjoy a well-deserved rest, and instead accepted the invitation and the offer of Russian Federation to play the Superfinal of the Russian “unisex” Chess Championship (for the second time in her life). The venue will be the Tsarskoye Selo Museum in Saint Petersburg, while no other detail is given about the other participants.

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