WFM Emilia Deak-Sala (left in the picture) and IM Olga Badelka (right) held up the Austrian flag in the 25th European Womens Chess Championship in Batumi and in a very sucessful way. Emilia scored 6 out of 11 against mostly stronger opponents and achieved her first WIM norm winning 51 rating points.
The first place went to 15 year old WFM Anastasiia Hnatyshyn who started as 76th seed into the tournament. With her sensational result of 9 out of 11 she won more than 200 rating points and went up to place 18 in the womens live rating list. Three players finished on 8,5/11 with IM Sabrina Vega Gutierrez from Spain winning second place on tiebreaks in front of IM Olga Badelka (Austria) and IM Nurgyul Salimova (Bulgaria).
Congratulations to the Austrian participants for their great achievements!
You can find a longer report on the website of the Austrian chess federation.
