A Russian spectator lady trying very hard to make eye contact with Capablanca during a February 1935 simultaneous exhibition in Leningrad.

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Facts about new FIDE Women's Championship Challenger Aleksandra Goryachkina 🇷🇺:

✅ She is 20 years old.
✅ Her father Yuri is a FIDE Master and her first coach.
✅ She is at her peak rating right now (2537 in June 2019).

✅ Goryachkina is currently #8 rated women in the world.
✅ She won her first gold medal at the girls under 10 world championship in 2008.
✅ In 2013, she finished 2nd in Russian U19 Open championship competing with boys.
✅ She is 2-times Russian Women’s Champion (2015, 2017).
✅ In 2018 Goryachkina became a grandmaster.
✅ She has a slight fear of darkness and closed space.
✅ She likes detective series and movies.

The last free day at #FIDEWomenCandidates: a large simultaneous display on 50 boards took place on pedestrian Bauman street. Children and senior players faced GMs Alisa Galliamova, Sergey Shipov, and Evgeny Miroshnichenko.

Congratulations to Vladislav Artemiev on winning the Poikovsky tournament after squeezing out a 6-hour win over Fedoseev in the final game! At 2760.6 he's now world no. 11 on the live ratings

Indian prodigy GM Nihal Sarin wins the Asian Blitz Championship in Xingtai, China 🇨🇳

14 year old Nihal Sarin scored an impressive 8/9 to win Gold, a full point ahead of his rivals.

Congratulations to Le Quang Liem on winning the Asian Continental Championship and returning to the 2700 club!