The Novosibirsk chess player took Russian Cup silver

Russian Cup finals among men and women took place in Khanty-Mansiysk. Eight best athletes played on the Olympic system with an elimination: the participant who was injured defeat, leaves, and in case of a draw the meeting is changed. As reports the ministry of physical culture and sport of NSO, our region in a cup-final of the country represented 15-year-old Zhapova Iana who is engaged with the international grand master Maletin Pawel in GAU DO NSO "Sports School on Chess". Zhapova Iana was stronger than the Muscovite Olga Badelka and the Nizhny Novgorod sportswoman Goltseva Catherina and only in the final, in...