The European Women’s Chess Championship continues today with the matches of the sixth round on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Antoineta Stefanova and teenager Petya Karaivanova will play in one of the matches. The 17-year-old Bulgarian, who will be with the black pieces, has a better asset than her famous rival, who has a gold medal from the European championship in 2002, before her today’s opponent was born. Petya has 2.5 points, and grandmaster Stefanova has 2, BNR reported.
Beloslava Krasteva, who has the highest ranking among the Bulgarian women and occupies the 14th place with 4 points, will have a serious test today. The bronze medalist of the world maiden championship will play the white pieces against Mitra Ejazipour, who is the reigning champion of France, whose ELO chess coefficient is 156 units higher and also has 4 points.
The situation is similar with Nadia Toncheva. The 18-year-old from Sofia has 3 points and has an ELO of 2258. She will play white against Turkey’s Ekaterina Atalik, who has a coefficient of 2406.
Viktoria Radeva also has 3 points and will be with the black pieces against Spain’s Adhara Rodriguez. Gergana Peycheva, who has 2.5 points, will play white against Austria’s Kiara Polterauer.
The round starts at 3 p.m. It is played according to the Swiss system in a total of 10 rounds.
At the moment, with 4.5 points each, the Azeri Ulvia Fataliyeva, Marta Garcia from Spain and Bozhena Pidubna, a Ukrainian born in 2009, are leading.
