Former Women’s World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili recently started to play chess again. She impressively won the 2005 BDO Chess Tournament (Premier Group) in the Netherlands with the score of 6.5 points out of 9 (6 wins, 2 losses and only 1 draw). Her performance rating was an astounding 2510!

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2621

She followed that up with an excellent start at the World Senior Championship in Italy. Going into the 9th of 11 rounds, we was in a tie for first with the score of 6.5 points out of 8. She drew GM Klovans in round 4 and beat GM Chernikov in round 8. Even though she collapsed and lost the last 3 games to end up in 29th place, she showed that she can still bring her A game.

http://www.prenassi.it/lignano2005/eng/placings.htm

There is a very interesting point to note, when Topalov wins the World Championship next week, Bulgaria will hold the triple-crown in World Championships:

World Women’s Champion: GM A. Stefanova
World Senior Champion: GM L. Spassov
World Champion: GM V. Topalov
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