Anastasiya Rakhmangulova emerged as the best woman player at the recently held rapid and blitz chess tournaments at Port Marly near Paris. The Woman International Master from Ukraine scored 9.5 points (in 13 rounds) and 6.5 points (in 9 rounds) in the blitz and rapid events respectively.
Even though Rakhmangulova is now playing tournaments across Europe, focusing on chess has been a tough task for her since 24 February, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. On that day, the 27-year-old woke up, with horror and confusion, in her Kyiv apartment to the sounds of air-raid sirens.
