Talented Nazi holds on to lead at Russian Women's Superfinal Chess after 7 rounds

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Hello Everyone,

More chess news from the beautiful city of Moscow. The seventeen-year-old talented Nazi Paikidze continues to lead at the Russian Women's Superfinal after seven rounds. We found nice reports by Anna Burtasova on both www.chessbase.com and official website www.russiachess.org. You can read more about Nazi in Anna's report and her love for chess (in English at Chessbase).

Meanwhile, here are the standings after seven rounds.

1. Paikidze - 5,

2-3. Pogonina, Galliamova - 4.5;

4-6. Kosteniuk, N. Kosintseva, T. Kosintseva 7. Nebolsina - 3.5,

8-9. Shadrin, Bodnaruk - 3,

10-11. Olga, Gunina - 2.5

12. Matveeva - 1.5

Russian women championship Superfinal is the round robin final stage of the national championship. It is held in Moscow from November 15 to 27. The prize fund of the tournament that brought in all the best players in the country, including the entire national team, is 1.4 million rubles (around 35 thousand Euros) with 400 thousand rubles (around 10.000 Euro) going to the winner.

The Russian chess federation is the organizer, with the generous support by the sponsors “Gazprom”, “Sberbank”, “Almaz-Antei”, and “E4 Group”. The time control is 40 moves for 90 minutes followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game and a 30-second increment as of move one.

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