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Charochkina

Blondes have more fun

Blondes have more fun

By mishanp on April 4, 2011

Hopefully, at least, as the chess didn’t go quite so well for them! The brunette team won the April Fool’s Day blitz match in Moscow’s Central Chess Club by a crushing 20-point margin, with Nazi Paikidze and Daria Charochkina finishing joint first in the individual standings.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Blondes versus brunettes, Charochkina, Fominykh, Girya, Gunina, Kashlinskaya, Kuznin, Paikidze, Potemkin, Savina, Surov | 4 Responses

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