A chess player Alexandra Goryachkina is among the leaders of the Championship of Europe

The chess player from Salekhard Alexandra Goryachkina stands unbeaten on the European Championship held in the Romanian town of Mamaia.

The sportswomen have six rounds ahead. The strongest 112 participants are competing for the continental awards. This information was given to a correspondent of IA “Sever-Press” by Alexander Potapov, the director of the Polar chess school named after Anatoly Karpov. In her latest five games the world champion from Yamal did not lose a single chess game. She won the victory over opponents from Italy, Germany, Hungary, and also played draw with representatives of Georgia and Turkey. Now Alexandra with 4 points takes the second place and yields only to the representative of Israel, who has 4.5 points. Aleksandra Goryachkina is a student of the Polar chess school of Anatoly Karpov, the repeated champion of the world, Europe and Russia among girls and boys. At thirteen she became the youngest grandmaster among women in the world. In 2014 the chess player won the title of the world champion among juniors up to 20 years old. Last year she won the Cup of Russia among women.