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Women's World Chess Championship 1981
The 1981 Women's World Chess Championship was won by Maia Chiburdanidze, who successfully defended her title against challenger Nana Alexandria after a closely fought match, which ended in an 8-8 tie. 1979 Interzonals Like the previous one, this championship cycle contained two Interzonal tournaments, held in Rio de Janeiro in September and Alicante in October 1979, featuring the best players from each FIDE zone. A total of 35 players took part, with the top three from Rio (17 players) and the top four from Alicante (18 players) qualifying for the Candidates' matches. Ioseliani won convincingly in Rio, 2½ points ahead of Veroci-Petronic and Alexandria. In Alicante, Lematschko and Akhmilovskaya shared first place, well ahead of Gurieli and Litinskaya. However, Lematschko subsequently defected from socialist Bulgaria and was unable to take part in the Candidates' matches, so her place was given to Fischdick as fourth-placed from the Rio Interzonal (on tie-breaks). Lematschko later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's World Chess Championship
The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the world champion in women's chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE. Unlike with most sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, where competition is either "mixed" (containing everyone) or split into men and women, in chess women are both allowed to compete in the "open" division (including the World Chess Championship) yet also have a separate Women's Championship (only open to women). History Era of Menchik The Women's World Championship was established by FIDE in 1927 as a single tournament held alongside the Chess Olympiad. The winner of that tournament, Vera Menchik, did not have any special rights as the men's champion did—instead she had to defend her title by playing as many games as all the challengers. She did this successfully in every other championship in her lifetime (1930, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937 and 1939). Dominance of the Soviet Union players (1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohini Khadilkar
Rohini Khadilkar (born 1 April 1963 in Mumbai) is a chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She has won the Indian women's championship five times and the Asian women's championship twice. She was the first female chess player to receive the Arjuna Award in 1980. She is the youngest of the three Khadilkar sisters - named Vasanti, Jayashri, and Rohini - all of whom excelled at chess. Their father, Nilkanth Khadilkar (1934-2019), was a famous journalist in Marathi language based near Mumbai, and all three sisters were helping run the newspaper 'Nava Kal' founded by their father at the time of his death. The family's association with literature goes all the way back to Marathi playwright Krishnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar (1872-1948), who was the great-grandfather to the sisters. Chess career Women's competitions Khadilkar became national women's chess champion in 1976 at the age of 13 and was the first to win that championship in three consecutiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nieves García
Nieves is a Spanish surname and a female given name from the title of the Virgin Mary ''Nuestra Señora de las Nieves,'' meaning "Our Lady of the Snows." There is also a Scottish Nieves surname that originated in Nevay, located in Angus, Scotland, and thus can be found in that country of United Kingdom. The Portuguese variant is Neves. The Spanish surname is most commonly found in Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Spain, and in many other Latin American countries. It is also common in the Canary Islands and its variant Neves is particularly common in Portugal as well as in the autonomous region of Galicia, Spain. According to Roser Saurí Colomer and Patrick Hanks of Brandeis University, the Spanish surname Nieves is of Asturian-Leonese origin. Notable people with the given name Nieves * Nieves Anula (born 1973), Spanish basketball player * Nieves Confesor, Filipino politician * Nieves Herrero (born 1957), Spanish journalist, presenter, and writer * Nieves Hidalgo ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maaja Ranniku
Maaja Ranniku (born 1 March 1941 in Abja-Paluoja - died 24 October 2004 in Tallinn) was an Estonian chess player (represented the Soviet Union until 1991). She was twice the winner of the Women's Soviet Championship: in 1963 (after beating at tiebreak Tatiana Zatulovskaya 4-2) and 1967. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master in 1964. Maaja Ranniku participated to many Estonian Championships, winning the women's title 10 times (1961, 1963, 1967, 1973, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, and 1991). At the 1964 women's Candidates Tournament, played in Sukhumi, she placed 6th in a field of 18 players. In 1992 she played with the Estonian team at the 30th Chess Olympiad in Manila, scoring 6½ points out of 11 games played. She had many good results in international tournaments: * 1969 : first place at Budapest * 1971 : first place at Braşov * 1973 : second place at Vrnjačka Banja Vrnjačka Banja ( sr-cyr, Врњачка Бања) is a town and municipality located i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mária Ivánka
Mária Ivánka (born 23 February 1950), also known as Mária Ivánka-Budinsky, is a Hungarian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Ivánka was born in Budapest and played chess at ten years old for the first time and by the age of eleven won her very first chess tournament, the Championship for elementary school girls of Budapest. At the age of 17, in 1967 she won her first national title, the Hungarian Women Chess Championship. She would go on to win the national title a total of nine times. At the Chess Olympiads between 1969 and 1986 she collected six medals. She earned the title of Woman Grandmaster in 1978. In the seventies, during the Soviet-dominant chess era, she ranked as one of the world's top players. She defeated the reigning world champion, Nona Gaprindashvili twice in international tournaments. Beside her chess career, together with her husband and coach András Budinszky, she has raised three children. Her brother was actor and directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Fatalibekova
Elena Abramovna Fatalibekova (russian: Елена Абрамовна Фаталибекова; née Rubtsova; born 4 October 1947, in Moscow) is a Russian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) since 1977. She is the daughter of fourth Women's World Chess Champion Olga Rubtsova. Her first great success was the shared victory of the Soviet Junior Girls' Chess Championship in 1963. In 1970 Fatalibekova placed second in a women's international tournament at Tbilisi and the next year won international tournament in Chelyabinsk. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master in 1970. In 1974 Fatalibekova won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship. Fatalibekova successfully played in the Women's World Chess Championship 1978. In 1976 she won the Tbilisi Women's Interzonal (ahead of Maia Chiburdanidze). In 1977 in the first round of the knock-out series of matches Fatalibekova won against Valentina Kozlovskaya in Sochi - 6 : 2 (+4 −0 =4) but in the semifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Savereide
Diane Savereide (born November 25, 1954) is an American chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1978 and is a five-time winner of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship (1975, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1984). Biography From the 1970s to the 1980s, Diane Savereide was one of the leading chess players in the United States. She is only the second American woman to achieve the National Master title (Gisela Kahn Gresser being the first). Diane Savereide won the Marshall Chess Club Women's Invitational in 1976 and 1977. She won the United States Women's Chess Championships five times, in 1975, 1976, 1978 (with Rachel Crotto), 1981 and 1984. In 1978, Diane Savereide was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title. Diane Savereide played for United States in the Women's Chess Olympiads: six times: * In 1976, on first board in the 7th Chess Olympiad (women) in Haifa (+4, =3, -3), * In 1978, on first board in the 8th Chess Olympiad (women) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Litinskaya-Shul
Marta Ivanivna Litynska ( ua, Марта Іванівна Літинська; russian: Марта Ивановна Литинская, ''Marta Ivanovna Litinskaya''; born 25 March 1949 in Lviv) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Born Marta Shul, she was Women's Soviet Chess Championship, Soviet Women's Champion in 1972, and runner-up in 1971, 1973, and 1974. She also won the Ukrainian Chess Championship, Ukrainian Women's Championship in 1967, 1977 and 1995. She played in the 2nd Interzonal Tournament in Menorca 1973 where tied for 2nd–5th places. In 1974, she lost a semifinal match to Nana Alexandria in Riga. Litinskaya won the World Senior Chess Championship, Women's World Senior Championship in Naumburg 2002. She was awarded the FIDE titles of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1972 and Woman Grandmaster in 1976. She received the Lady International Correspondence Chess Master title in 1978. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Gurieli
Nino Gurieli ( ka, ნინო გურიელი; born December 7, 1961) is a Georgian chess player. She received the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) in 1997 and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1980. She is a descendant of the noble family of Gurieli and married to Grandmaster Zurab Sturua. Gurieli won the Georgian women's chess championship in 1976. She has competed for the Women's World Chess Championship several times, most recently she competed in the Women's World Chess Championship, 2010 The Women's World Chess Championship 2010 took place in Antakya, Turkey from December 2 through 24, 2010. The tournament, like the previous ones, was played in a 64-player knock-out format. Each pairing consisted of two games, one with white and o ..., where she went out in the first round. In recent years, she has also been acting as a captain of Georgian Women's Olympic Team. References External links * * * 1961 births Living people Female chess players from Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya
Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya (born ''Elena Bronislavovna Akhmilovskaya'', russian: Елена Брониславовна Ахмыловская; 11 March 1957 – 18 November 2012) was a Soviet-born American chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977. She won the Women Candidates' tournament in 1986 and later in the same year played a match against Maia Chiburdanidze in Sofia for the Women's World Championship title, but lost by 8½–5½. Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya was born in Leningrad in a family where all members played chess. In 1969 the family moved to Krasnoyarsk, where she started playing chess in the local Pioneers Palace chess circle. She lived in Sochi, then in Tbilisi, Georgia from 1979 until 1988, when she abruptly eloped to the United States by marrying U.S. team captain John Donaldson at the Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki, Greece. She lived in the Seattle area with her new husband, Georgi Orlov (himself an International Maste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatjana Lematschko
Tatjana Lematschko (March 16, 1948 – May 17, 2020) was a Soviet-born Swiss chess player, She was born in Moscow, but lived in Bulgaria for several years. She won both the Women's Bulgarian Chess Championship and Swiss Chess Championship several times. She has competed for the world championship, most recently in the Women's World Chess Championship 1999. At the 27th Chess Olympiad The 27th Chess Olympiad ( ar, أولمبياد الشطرنج ال27, ''uwlimbiad al-shatranj al-27''), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female ... she won a medal for the best performance on no. 1 board. WGM Tatjana Lematschko died in Zurich, aged 72. References External linksher games Swiss chess players 1948 births 2020 deaths Chess players from Moscow Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, Department of Chess alumni Soviet emigrants to Switz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Luisa Carvajal
Ana Luisa Carvajal Gamoneda (born 9 March 1963) is a Cuban chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM). Biography In 1978, she won the second place in FIDE Zonal Tournament (the first place won her compatriot Asela de Armas Pérez) and was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title. In 1979, Ana Luisa Carvajal Gamoneda participated at Interzonal Tournament in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ... and ranked 17th place. References External links * * 1962 births Living people Cuban female chess players Cuban chess players Chess Woman International Masters {{Cuba-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
