22 December 2017
Princes Make First Draw With Kings in Round 3 of Nutcracker
Queens defeat Princesses.
Round 4 pairings:
Yuffa – Shirov, Esipenko – Gelfand, Mamedyarov – Artemiev, Rublevsky – Oparin.
In the women's section, Aleksandra Dimitrova lost to Tatiana Grabuzova, Ekaterina Goltseva bested Galina Strutinskaia, Elena Zaiats won against Elizaveta Solozhenkina, while Ekaterina Kovalevskaya outplayed Aleksandra Maltsevskaya. The score is 14-10 in favor of Queens.
Round 4 pairings:
Solozhenkina – Grabuzova, Maltsevskaya – Strutinskaia, Zaiats – Dimitrova, Kovalevskaya – Goltseva.
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