Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina is a Russian chess grandmaster. She is the highest rated Russian woman in chess history with a peak FIDE rating of 2611. Goryachkina was the challenger in the 2020 Wome
Goryachkina at the Russian Chess Championship Superfinal 2024
Goryachkina with her father (2015)
Goryachkina at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in 2013
Goryachkina (center) holding the winner's prizes at the 2017 Russian Women's Championship Superfinal, left Natalia Pogonina and right Alina Kashlinskaya
Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is allowed significantly less time than classical chess time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time
Aleksandra Goryachkina
…woman in chess history with a peak FIDE rating of 2611. Goryachkina was the challenger in the 2020 Women's World Championship match, which she lost in rapid tiebreaks to Ju Wenjun. She is also a three-time Russian Women's Chess Champion, which she achieved in 2015, 2017, and 2020. In August 2023, she won…
Spectators watch as street chess player "Russian Paul" (left) plays bullet chess with Jonathan Corbblah in Union Square, Manhattan.
Magnus Carlsen (left) playing GM Dennis Wagner (right) at the 2015 FIDE World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championship in Berlin, at which Carlsen retained the title World Rapid Chess Champion
Blitz World Champion Alexander Grischuk (right) in Berlin, 2015, with runners-up Vladimir Kramnik (center) and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (left)