Today Women'с Chess Championship of Ukraine has started in Poltava.
26 participants (12 of them have International titles) fred compete in Swiss 9 rounds. Players of the national team Inna Gaponenko and Tatiana Vasilevish as well as Ekaterina Dolzhikova, Oksana Gricaeva, Olga Kalinina, Evgeniya Dolukhanova and Anastasiya Rakhmangulova are top seeded.
photo by ukrchess.org.ua