Bibisara Assaubayeva enters top three at FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022

Bibisara Assaubayeva played a draw with the leader of the Grand Prix, Russian Alexander Goryachkina, who has the highest FIDE rating among the participants in Astana, El.kz reports with reference to the Telegram channel "Schrödinger's Sport".

Also drawn in the fourth round was Jansaya Abdumalik, whose opponent was the German chess player Elisabeth Petz.

The draw moved Bibisara from fourth to third place in the standings. Zhansaya remained on the sixth line.

In the fifth round, Assaubayeva will play with Russian Ekaterina Lagno, and Abdumalik - with Zhu Jin'er from China.