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Women's World Chess Championship 1993
The 1993 Women's World Chess Championship was won by Xie Jun, who successfully defended her title against challenger Nana Ioseliani in the title match. 1991 Interzonal Tournament As part of the qualification process, an Interzonal tournament was held in Subotica in November 1991, featuring the best players from each FIDE zone. 35 players took part with the top six qualifying for the Candidates Tournament. For the first time, the women's Interzonal was played as a 13-round Swiss system tournament. : Sylvia Chidi of Nigeria didn't enter the tournament until after the first two rounds were played, so her first two games are listed as forfeited. 1992–93 Candidates Tournament The six qualifiers from the Interzonal Tournament were joined by Chiburdanidze, who had lost the last title match, and Marić, the runner-up from the previous Candidates Tournament. In addition to these eight, FIDE decided to give a wild card to Polgár, who the year before had been the first woman to achiev ... [...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 (195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ildikó Mádl
Ildikó Mádl (born 5 November 1969 in Tapolca) is a Hungarian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Madl learned to play chess from her father. In 1978 she became a pupil of the chess school ''Mereszjev'' that helped to promote talented Hungarian children and teenagers. Individual tournaments In 1982 and 1983 she won the so-called Olympiad of Pioneers and the Hungarian Championships under-13 and under-15. Moreover, in 1982 she won the Hungarian Girls Championship U20 although she was only 13 years of age. At the Hungarian Women's Championship in 1982 she was third. In 1983 and 1984 she achieved her first international successes. In winter 1983/84 she won an international girl's tournament in Straubing and in 1984 she won the Cadet World Championship for Girls (U16) in Champigny-sur-Marne and the European Junior Chess Championship for girls U20 in Katowice. It was only consequent that Mádl was nominated for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatriz Marinello
Beatriz Mansilla Marinello (also known as Beatriz MacArthur; born May 14, 1964) is a Chilean-American chess player and chess official. She was a vice president of FIDE from 2010 to 2018. Marinello was previously president of the United States Chess Federation (USCF) from 2003 to 2005 and a member of the executive board from 2003 to 2007. She was elected general secretary of the Association of Chess Professionals in 2019. Marinello started playing chess at the age of 13 and became national women's champion of Chile when she was 16 years old. In 1980, she was awarded the title Woman International Master (WIM) by FIDE. She organized her first national championship in Chile at the age of 20 years, and later organized other international competitions. Marinello arrived in the United States from Chile in 1990, and became a chess teacher in Miami. She represented the US in two Women's Interzonal Tournaments: in 1991 in Subotica and in 1993 in Jakarta. She also represented the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Maria Botsari
Anna-Maria Botsari (Greek: Άννα-Μαρία Μπότσαρη) (born 5 October 1972) is a Greek chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Chess career Botsari has won, or jointly won, the Greek Women's Chess Championship eight times. She was a bronze medalist at the 1990 World Junior Chess Championship and silver medalist in 1991. She was the highest rated Greek female chess player for more than a decade. Botsari was a participant in the 1991, 1993 and 1996 World Women's Chess Championship Interzonal tournaments. She scored 9/18 in the 1990 Women's Interzonal in Azov, 6/13 in the 1991 Women's Interzonal in Subotica, and 7.5/13 at the 1993 Women's Interzonal in Jakarta. Botsari has represented Greece in fifteen Chess Olympiads from 1986 to 2014. Her best results were at the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki in 1988, where she scored 8.5/12 and finished sixth on the first reserve board, and the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled in 2002, where she scored 8.5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Chelushkina
Irina Cheluskina ( sr-cyr, Ирина Чолушкина, Irina Čoluškina; born 1 February 1961 in Kherson) is a Ukrainian and Serbian chess player and a Woman Grandmaster. She has won the USSR Women's Chess Championship once, the Women's Yugoslav Chess Championship The Yugoslav Chess Championship was an annual chess tournament held to determine the Yugoslav national champion and Yugoslavia's candidates for the World Chess Championship. It was first played in 1935 in Belgrade, the capital of Kingdom of Yugo ... three times and the Serbian-Montenegrin championship twice, and the Women's Serbian Chess Championship in 2022. References External links * * * * * 1961 births Living people Serbian female chess players Serbian chess players Ukrainian female chess players Ukrainian chess players Chess Woman Grandmasters Sportspeople from Kherson Naturalized citizens of Serbia {{Serbia-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirjana Marić
Mirjana Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирјана Марић ; born January 10, 1970, in New York City) is an American-born Serbian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She lives in Belgrade, capital of Serbia (former Yugoslavia), and has a dual Serbian and US citizenship. Marić was introduced to chess at the age of four, together with her 20-minutes-older twin sister Alisa Marić. Alisa and Mirjana are the only twins with grandmaster titles in the history of modern chess. At an early age, she shared 1-3 place in the World Youth Chess Championship U16 in France 1984 (bronze medal), and won the same competition in Israel in 1985. Marić was twice Yugoslav Chess Champion, sharing first place with Suzana Maksimovic in 1991. and winning alone in 1993. She played three times for Yugoslavia on Chess Olympiads, in Novi Sad 1990 (2nd team), in Moscow 1994 and Yerevan 1996. FIDE has awarded her with the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1988 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordana Marković
Gordana Marković (née Jovanović; born 4 January 1951), also known as Gordana Marković-Jovanović, ( sr-Cyrl, Гордана Марковић-Јовановић) is a Serbian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1979). She is a two-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1977, 1981) and won a team bronze medal with the Yugoslav women's team at the 1988 Chess Olympiad. Biography From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, she was one of the leading Yugoslav women's chess players. Gordana Marković twice won the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship, in 1977 and 1981. Gordana Marković participated in three Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments: * In 1979, at Interzonal Tournament in Alicante shared 13th-14th place; * In 1987, at Interzonal Tournament in Smederevska Palanka finished in 13th place; * In 1991, at Interzonal Tournament in Subotica finished in 22nd place. Gordana Marković played for Yugoslavia in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanja Vuksanović
Sanja Vuksanović ( sr-Cyrl, Сања Вуксановић; born 4 March 1967) is a Serbian chess player. She earned the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1998. She won FR Yugoslavia Women's Chess Championship in 1992. In July 1998, she reached FIDE ''Top 50 Women'' ranking list. Biography In the 1990s, Vuksanović was one of the leading female chess players in Serbia. In 1991, she shared first place in Women's World Chess Championship Zonal Tournament and won the right to take part in an Interzonal Tournament. In 1991, Vuksanović participated in Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in Subotica where she was tied 16th-21st. In 1992, she won FR Yugoslavia Women's Chess Championship. Sanja Vuksanović played for FR Yugoslavia in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1996, at third board in the 32nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Yerevan (+4, =0, -4), * In 1998, at first reserve board in the 33rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Elista (+1, =1, -2). In 1992, she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Mišanović
Vesna Caselotti, née Mišanović, (born 27 November 1964 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. She was winner of the first ever medal for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the first Women's European Team Chess Championship in Debrecen 1992. It was an individual silver medal for best rating performance and result at first board. Before that, she won two bronze medals by playing for the Yugoslav national team at the 1988 Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki. The medals were for overall team performance and for her individual result on fourth board. In total, she participated at six Chess Olympiads, two times for Yugoslavia (4th board in Thessaloniki 1988 and 2nd board in Novi Sad 1990) and four times for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1st board in Manila 1992, Moscow 1994, Elista 1998 and Istanbul 2000). Her first major domestic success also occurred in 1988, when she became Yugoslav Women's Chess Champion. In individual, international competitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tünde Csonkics
Tünde Csonkics (born 20 September 1958) is a Hungarian chess player who received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1990. She is a Hungarian Women's Chess Champion (1981). Biography In 1979, Tünde Csonkics won the International Women Chess Tournament in Nałęczów. In 1981, she shared the third place in the International Women Chess Tournament in Novi Sad. In 1991, Tünde Csonkics participated in the Women's World Chess Interzonal Tournament in Subotica, where she took 19th place. She has participated many times in the Hungarian Women's Chess Championship where she won gold (1981) and silver (1995) medals. Tünde Csonkics played for Hungary in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1980, at first reserve board in the 9th Chess Olympiad (women) in Valletta (+3, =0, -1) and won team silver medal * In 1982, at first reserve board in the 10th Chess Olympiad (women) in Lucerne Lucerne ( , ; High Alemannic German, High Alemannic: ''Lozärn'') or Luzern ()Other lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsuzsa Verőci
Zsuzsa Verőci (; born February 19, 1949) is a Hungarian chess Woman International Master (1969) and Woman Grandmaster (1978). She has also been a FIDE International Arbiter since 1995. Her current FIDE rating is 2246 and her peak rating, from July 2003 to April 2004, was 2315. She was born February 19, 1949, in Budapest, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a .... Veroci has represented Hungary ten times in the Women's Chess Olympiad between 1966 and 1992, winning three individual silver medals and two individual bronze. References External links * 1949 births Living people Chess Woman Grandmasters Hungarian female chess players Hungarian chess players Chess arbiters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess players from Budapest {{Hungary-chess-bio-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita Voiska
Margarita Voyska ( bg, Маргарита Войска; born April 3, 1963, Sofia) is a Bulgarian chess player. She has won the Women's Bulgarian Chess Championship 11 times. She has competed for the Women's World Chess Championship several times, and has competed in the Women's Chess Olympiad in total 19 times between 1980-2016 which is the women's record in number of times one has participated in the Chess Olympiads. She was in the Bulgarian team that won the silver medal in 1984. She won the Women's European Senior Chess Championship in 2013. References External links *Margarita Voiskachess games and profile at chess-db.comchess games on chessgames.com Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members. The site maintains a large database of chess games, where each game has its own discussion page for comments and analysis. Limited primarily to games where at least one pla ... Living people Bulgarian female chess players Bulgarian chess pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
