Galina Strutyunskaia with yet another title
The 2011 and 2012 World Senior Champion WGM Galina Strutinskaya and the young talent WGM Alina Kashlinskaya shared first place at the Moscow blitz tournament that took place this weekend in Russia. They both finished with 9,5/11, half a point ahead of FM Daria Pustovoitova, as Strutinskaya won the gold with better tiebreak.
The 4th placed WFM Anastasiya Eryshkanova was two points behind the medal places at 7,0/11, while 5th place was shared by Dina Drozdova and the top placed foreign player WIM Altanulzii Enkhtuul from Mongolia.
More about the tournament at the top Russian news source e3e5.com, the official site, and the Russian version of Chessdom.
Final standings
| 1 | WGM | Strutinskaya Galina N | RUS | 9.5 |
| 2 | WGM | Kashlinskaya Alina | RUS | 9.5 |
| 3 | FM | Pustovoitova Daria | RUS | 9 |
| 4 | WFM | Eryshkanova Anastasiya | RUS | 7 |
| 5 | Drozdova Dina | RUS | 6.5 | |
| 6 | WIM | Enkhtuul Altanulzii | MGL | 6.5 |
| 7 | IM | Vasilevich Irina | RUS | 6 |
| 8 | WFM | Gansvind Valeriya I. | EST | 6 |
| 9 | WIM | Titorenko Natalia I | RUS | 6 |
| 10 | WIM | Minogina Tamara | RUS | 6 |
| 11 | WFM | Bogumil Tatiana | RUS | 6 |
| 12 | WGM | Shaydullina Sandugach | RUS | 5.5 |
| 13 | WIM | Kharmunova Nadezhda | RUS | 5.5 |
| 14 | WFM | Gvanceladze Anna | RUS | 5.5 |
| 15 | WFM | Saulina Varvara | RUS | 5.5 |
| 16 | Kruglikova Viktorija | RUS | 5.5 | |
| 17 | WGM | Chasovnikova Eugenia | RUS | 5.5 |
| 18 | WGM | Fatalibekova Elena | RUS | 5 |
| 19 | Girshgorn Maria | RUS | 5 | |
| 20 | WFM | Beliaeva Natalia | RUS | 5 |
| 21 | Stepanova Tamara | RUS | 4.5 | |
| 22 | WFM | Kalashnikova Nadezhda | RUS | 4 |
| 23 | Vasiukova Ekaterina | RUS | 3 | |
| 24 | Bonoeva Tatiana | RUS | 2.5 | |
| 25 | Ivanova Marianna | RUS | 2 | |
| 26 | Afanasieva Alexandra | RUS | 1.5 | |
| 27 | Mednikova Anna | RUS | 0 |
