Anna Muzychuk World Blitz Champion

No rest for the weary - the women in Khanty-Mansiysk battled on for three more grueling days playing a marathon 30 games of blitz . The format was of 3+2 (three minutes plus two second increments) in a double swiss, which means every player played their opponent twice, once with black and once with white.

Pee-ka-boo: Anna Ushenina

Kateryna Lagno only scored 17.0/30 in the blitz.
One World Championship per year is enough.

Nataltia Zhukova from Ukraine finished in 26th place

Anna Muzychuk right before her first game, definitely meaning business

A crowded set in the halls of the Ugra Chess Academy

Zhu Chen from Qatar (originally China) with 50%

Time will tell if the venture to Russia will be good for the Irina Krush's upcoming American Championship

30 more rounds... Batchimeg Tuvshintugs and the other players of the Grand Prix that stayed for the Blitz and Rapid Championships played a total of 56 games in these two weeks

Maria Forminykh was only able to score 7.5/30 in the blitz

Rapids are a piece of cake compared to blitz for arbiters

Always ready: Elizabeth Paehtz from Germany

Alexandra Kosteniuk lost three matches: 0-2 against Stefanova and 0.5-1.5 to Lagno and Paehtz

Anna Muzychuk happily given her impressions after day one

Antoaneta Stefanova started day one strong with 7.5/10,
but she finished 1.5 away from the podium at the end

Tatiana Kosintseva finally got her groove going and finished with a bronze medal

Sivler went to Georgian GM Nana Dzagnidze

Day two started with an incredible game after Anna Muzychuk walked into a
mate in one when she was up the exchange! Luckily for her this didn't change her fate in the long run.

Karina Ambartsumova, a very friendly face from Russia

Kateryna Lagno seemed to be in medal contention,
but it all went downhill after a 2-0 loss to Dzagnidze in Round 10

Alexandra Kosteniuk in action

They played each other a few times this trip: Batchimeg Tuvshintugs and Nafisa Muminova

"I solved this one, and this one, and this one!"
Homework is a normal part of a chess player's life

Girya was awarded Bronze Medal in the blitz

Tatiana Kosintseva with 5.0/6 to weave herself into third place

The rapid winners: Alexandra Kosteniuk (silver), Kateryna Lagno (gold) and Olga Girya (bronze)

The podium with the winners in Rapid and Blitz

Final Standings

Place	Name		Fed.	FIDE	Total
1	Muzychuk, Anna		SLO	B 2613	23.0
2	Dzagnidze, Nana		GEO	B 2523	20.5
3	Kosintseva, Tatiana		RUS	B 2502	20.0
4	Zhao, Xue		CHN	B 2510	19.0
5	Stefanova, Antoaneta		BUL	B 2565	18.5
6	Paehtz, Elisabeth		GER	B 2424	18.0
7	Gunina, Valentina		RUS	B 2532	18.0
8	Kosteniuk, Alexandra		RUS	B 2539	17.5
9	Lagno, Kateryna		UKR	B 2549	17.0
10	Harika, Dronavalli		IND	B 2466	16.5
11	Muzychuk, Mariya		UKR	B 2438	16.0
12	Guseva, Marina		RUS	B 2340	16.0
13	Cramling, Pia		SWE	B 2414	16.0
14	Kashlinskaya, Alina		RUS	B 2354	15.5
15	Ambartsumova, Karina		RUS	B 2367	15.5
16	Zhu, Chen		QAT	B 2431	15.0
17	Gaponenko, Inna		UKR	B 2374	15.0
18	Goryachkina, Aleksandra		RUS	B 2238	15.0
19	Girya, Olga		RUS	B 2396	14.5
20	Ushenina, Anna		UKR	B 2573	14.5
21	Ubiennykh, Ekaterina		RUS	2285	14.5
22	Khotenashvili, Bela		GEO	B 2485	14.5
23	Charochkina, Daria		RUS	B 2481	14.0
24	Muminova, Nafisa		UZB	B 2269	14.0
25	Krush, Irina		USA	B 2422	14.0
26	Zhukova, Natalia		UKR	B 2457	14.0
27	Drozdova, Dina		RUS	B 2259	12.5
28	Shaydullina, Sandugach		RUS	B 2260	12.5
29	Batchimeg, Tuvshintugs		MGL	B 2321	12.0
30	Sukhareva, Evgeniya		RUS	B 2259	12.0
31	Sviridova, Vlada		RUS	B 2101	11.0
32	Bezgodova, Svetlana		RUS	B 2189	11.0
33	Fominykh, Maria		RUS	B 2304	7.5
34	Popova, Natalija		BLR	2314	5.5

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