The top seed of the European Individual Women’s Chess Championship 2016 GM Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL 2507) defetared the leading WIM Yuliya Shvayger (ISR 2415) and took the lead.
The ex World Champion emerged as leader before the rest day and will face IM Elisabeth Paehtz (GER 2489) in the 7th round.
The rest of the players in the group with 4 points drew their games, so now we have 12 players with half a point behind Stefanova.
Stendings after round 6:
1 Stefanova 5 points
2-13 Gaponenko, Arakhamia-Grant, Shvayger, Goryachkina, Atalik, Ushenina, Socko, Paezth, Mkrtchian, Bodnaruk, Brunello and Osmak 4.5 points, etc.
The 7th round is on schedule tomorrow, Friday 3rd May at 3.00 pm (local time) with the following top pairings:
Paehtz vs Stefanova, Gryachkina vs Osmak, Gaponenko vs Bodnaruk, Shvayger vs Socko, Atalik vs Ushenina, Arakhamia-Grant vs Mrktchian, Pogonina vs Brunello, etc.
