Russian Superfinal 2020 |
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| Thursday, 17 December 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Image courtesy of the official site Despite the raging COVID pandemic, the Russian Chess Federation nevertheless decided to hold the Russian Superfinals in Moscow from December 5 to 16. One of the participants of the men's event, Mikhail Antipov, actually tested positive for COVID and had to withdraw from the tournament at some point. The main discovery of this year's women's event is definitely Polina Shuvalova. She is 19, rated 2456 already, not to mention the gains from this tournament. After she scored 6/6 in the starting rounds, it seemed like the winner of the round robin was already set in stone. However, the second highest-rated female player in the world, 22-year old Alexandra Goryachkina (2596) decided to interfere. As a result, both of the competitors scored a remarkable 8/11, leading to a traditional playoff that we get to see pretty much every year in the women's event. After drawing both rapid games, Goryachkina won was White the Armageddon encounter. It is interesting to note that the players who played a tie-break for the gold medal last year, Olga Girya and Natalia Pogonina, performed relatively modestly this time. Is it a temporary setback, or are we already witnessing a change of guard, as the new generation of talented players keeps improving year by year? Time will tell. Full standings:  Natalia Pogonina's results at the Superfinals:
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