Women on song at Chess Olympiad
Friday, October 05, 2018
Ahead of the 10th round, highly-rated Botswana player Woman International Master, Dr Francis Onkemetse is sitting pretty with an impressive six points from nine games, a 68% performance rating.
Francis did well in seven games only losing two in the tournament thus far.
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