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FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011
The FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011 was a series of six chess tournaments exclusively for women, which formed part of the qualification cycle for the Women's World Chess Championship 2011. The winner of the Grand Prix (the one with most Grand Prix points) was to challenge Hou Yifan—the 2010 world champion— in the third quarter of 2011. As Hou Yifan also won the Grand Prix, Koneru Humpy as the runner-up qualified for the championship match. The final tournament was originally scheduled to take place in Santiago de Chile starting on October 23, 2010. However, due to problems with financing, the host was replaced and the final tournament was then played in Doha, Qatar. Format Eighteen of the top female players in the world were to be selected to compete in these tournaments. Each player would contract to participate in exactly 4 of these tournaments. Players must rank their preference of tournaments once the final list of host cities was announced and the dates allocated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIDE Women's Grand Prix
The FIDE Grand Prix is a biennial series of chess tournaments, organized by FIDE.https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1135214/fide-womens-grand-prix-postponed-scandal Results Hou Yifan has won all three Grand Prix she has played. Koneru Humpy is the perennial runner-up, coming second in every Grand Prix to date. The players who qualify for the world women's championship match are marked with blue background. The players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament are marked with green background. See also *FIDE Grand Prix The FIDE Grand Prix is a biennial series of chess tournaments, organized by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon. Each series consist of three to six chess tournaments, which form part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship or ... References External linksOfficial FIDE site {{Chess Sports competition series FIDE competitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Jun
Xie Jun (born October 30, 1970) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and is not just the first Chinese female but the first Asian female to become a chess grandmaster. She had two separate reigns as Women's World Chess Champion, from 1991 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2001. Xie is one of three women to have at least two separate reigns, besides Elisaveta Bykova and Hou Yifan. Xie Jun is the current president of the Chinese Chess Association. In 2019, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Early life and career Although born in Baoding, Hebei in 1970 and raised in Beijing, the ancestral home of Xie and her parents is Liaoyuan, Jilin. At the age of six Xie began to play Chinese chess, and by the age of 10 she had become the girls' xiangqi champion of Beijing. At the urging of government authorities, she soon began playing international chess. Despite indifferent training opportunities, Xie became the Chinese girls' chess champion in 1984. In 1988 she tied for second–f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Kosintseva
Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva (russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева; born 11 April 1986) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Kosintseva is a two-time European women's champion and three-time Russian women's champion. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010 and 2012, and at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009 and 2011. Career Kosintseva started to play chess at 6 years old along with elder sister Nadezhda, when coming back home from dance lessons with their mother they happened upon a chess club and decided then and there to take up the game. As a youngster, she recalls being inspired by a book of former world champion Alexander Alekhine's games and was similarly impressed by the games of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer. At the World Youth Chess Championships, she earned silver medals at the Girls Under 10 (Cala Galdana, 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoaneta Stefanova
Antoaneta Stefanova ( bg, Антоанета Стефанова; born 19 April 1979) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and Women's World Champion from 2004 to 2006. She has represented Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad in 2000 and the Women's Chess Olympiad since 1992. Early life and career Stefanova was born in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. When she was four years old, she received chess lessons from her father, Andon Stefanov, a designing artist. In 1989, Stefanova won the Girls U10 section at the World Youth Chess Festival in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. In 1992, she played, at the age of 13, in her first Chess Olympiad in Manila, Philippines. In the same year she became European under-14 girls' champion at the European Youth Chess Championship in Rimavská Sobota. Stefanova won the Bulgarian women's championship in 1995. She tied for fourth place in the 4th Hawaii International Chess Tournament in 1997 scoring 7 points out of 10 games. Thanks to this result Stefanova achieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Fierro
Martha Lorena Fierro Baquero (born September 6, 1977) is an American-born Ecuadorian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster, and FIDE International Organizer. She won the American Continental Women's Chess Championship in 2009. Born in Kingston, Rhode Island, USA, Fierro has been Ecuador's strongest female chess player for many years, and has represented Ecuador in ten biennial Chess Olympiads from 1994 to 2012. In 1998 she played in the open section (with both male and female players), while in the other editions she took part in the women's tournament. Her best results were when she scored 9.5/13 in the 1996 Women's Chess Olympiad in Yerevan, and 7.5/8 in the 2008 Women's Chess Olympiad in Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilit Mkrtchian
Lilit Mkrtchian ( hy, Լիլիթ Մկրտչյան; born 9 August 1982) is an Armenian chess player. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), which FIDE awarded her in 2003 and 1998 respectively. Mkrtchian is a four-time Armenian women's chess champion. In 2002, Mkrtchian won the silver medal in the European Individual Women's Championship in Varna, Bulgaria, scoring 8½/11 points. She participated in the Women's European Team Chess Championship 2003 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, helping Armenia to win the gold medal. Mkrtchian took the bronze medal at the 7th European Women's Individual Championship 2006 held in Kuşadası, Turkey, scoring 7½/11 points. In the 2009 edition she tied with Tatiana Kosintseva for first place scoring 8½/11 and took silver after losing the playoff. In December 2009, she took tenth position in the list of best sportspeople of Armenia in 2009. In 2013, she came third at the European Women's Individual Championship. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeinab Mamedyarova
Zeinab Hamid qizi Mamedyarova (also spelled Mamedjarova; az, Zeynəb Həmid qızı Məmmədyarova; born 3 October 1983) is an Azerbaijani chess player holding the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Career In 2000, Mamedyarova won the Girls U18 section of the World Youth Championships in Oropesa del Mar and took a silver medal at the 34th Chess Olympiad, held in Istanbul. In 2002, she won the European junior girls championship in Baku and a bronze medal at the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled. Mamedyarova won the Azerbaijani women's championship in 2001, 2008, 2015. She took part in the Istanbul leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series in 2009. Personal life She is the elder sister of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Turkan Mamedyarova Turkan Hamid qizi Mamedyarova ( az, Türkan Həmid qızı Məmmədyarova, ; born 7 August 1989) is an Azerbaijani chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2007). Chess career Turkan's first chess trainer was her father. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shen Yang (chess Player)
Shen Yang (; born January 23, 1989 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese chess player who holds the titles of International master and Woman Grandmaster. Shen Yang plays for Jiangsu chess club in the China Chess League (CCL). Career In 2001, she won the U-12 Girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Spain. A notable game occurred in the World Team Chess Championship, held in Beersheba, Israel on October–November 2005, where Shen - then rated 2326 - managed to defeat 2652-rated Russian GM Sergei Rublevsky. In the May–June 2006 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin she was part of the Chinese team that came third in the women's section. In October 2006, she won the Girls' World Junior Championship in Yerevan, Armenia. In May 2007, she was part of the Chinese team that won the first Women's World Team Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg, Russia. In the Russian Team Championship Shen plays for the women's team of ''ACADEMY Tomsk'' on Board 2. In August–September 2008 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betul Cemre Yildiz
Betul may refer to: Places * Betul district, India * Betul (Lok Sabha constituency), one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh * Betul (Vidhan Sabha constituency) * Betul, Goa, India * Betul, Madhya Pradesh, India See also * Betül Betül is a Turkish given name of Arabic origin for women. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Danielian
Elina Danielian ( hy, Էլինա Դանիելյան; born 16 August 1978 in Baku) is an Armenian chess grandmaster and six-time Armenian women's champion (1993, 1994. 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004). She has represented Armenia twelve times during the Women's Chess Olympiads (1992–2014). She played in the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the 5th Women's European Team Chess Championship in Plovdiv 2003. In 2021 she won the European Individual Chess Championship. Danielian won the World Under-14 Girls Championship in Duisburg 1992 and the World Under-16 Girls Championship in Bratislava 1993. In 2001, she won the European Women's Rapid Chess Championship in Minsk. In October of 2010, she was in the top 10 women chess players in the world. In March 2011, she was tied for first place in the Doha stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011. Danielian won the bronze medal in the 2011 European Women's Championship in Tbilisi, scoring 8/11 points. In May 2019, Elina narrowly defea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Dzagnidze
Nana Dzagnidze ( ka, ნანა ძაგნიძე; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess player. She was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2008. Dzagnidze was a member of the gold medal-winning Georgian team in the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2008 and European women's individual champion in 2017. Career Dzagnidze won the Girls Under 12 section of the World Youth Chess Championships in 1999. She also won the gold medal at the World Girls Under 20 Championship in 2003, scoring 2 points ahead of the field. In September 2005 she took part in the sixth Lausanne Young Masters tournament, finishing seventh. Andrei Volokitin won the tournament. At the Gibraltar Chess Festival, Dzagnidze won the prize for the best female player in 2009 and 2011. In July 2010 she won in Jermuk the fourth leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series, which was part of the Women's World Chess Championship cycle for 2011. She won seven games and drew four, in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
