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Women's World Chess Championship 2001
The Women's World Chess Championship 2001 took place from November 25 to December 14, 2001, in Moscow, Russia. It was won by Zhu Chen, who beat Alexandra Kosteniuk in the final by 5 to 3. The final was tied 2–2 after the classical games and decided in the rapid tie-breaks. For the second time, the championship took the form of a 64-player knock-out tournament. Participants The qualified players were seeded by their Elo ratings (October 2001). FIDE Notable top players not taking part were (ranked the no. 1 woman in the world), (ranked 2nd), [...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] |
Alisa Marić
Alisa Marić, PhD (Serbian Cyrillic: Алиса Марић, ; born 10 January 1970) is a Serbian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and International Master (IM). On 27 July 2012, she was elected as Minister of Youth and Sports in the Government of Serbia and held that position until 2 September 2013. Chess twins Alisa Marić was introduced to chess at the age of four, together with her 20-minutes-younger twin sister Mirjana Marić. Alisa and Mirjana are the only twins with "Woman Grandmaster" titles in the history of modern chess. Alisa is also a mother of twins, girl and boy, Milica and Dušan. Early successes At the age of 12, Alisa became national chess master and senior champion of Belgrade. At 15, she was FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) and World Junior Vice Champion Under 20 (World Junior Chess Championship Dobrna 1985.). As a 16-year-old girl, she was the youngest ever winner of the Yugoslav Chess Championship, which was hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (born 25 March 1979) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), the first female player in her country to achieve these titles. She has won more medals than any other player for India in the Chess Olympiads. She has won almost all national age group titles, including the senior title. Personal life Born in Madras, she learned the game from her father. She is married to Indian Grandmaster Sriram Jha. Her sisters Subbaraman Meenakshi (born 1981, WGM) and S. Bhanupriya are also chess players. Career Her first tournament was the Tal Chess Open in 1986. In 1988 and in 1989 she won the Indian championship in the U10 girls category. Also in the U12 category she won twice. In the Zone tournament in Madras (1995) she finished second. She won the Asian Zone tournament in 1997 in Teheran, and also in 1999 in Mumbai. In 1996 in Kolkata she became Commonwealth women's champion, a title she won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inna Gaponenko
Inna Gaponenko (also known as Inna Yanovska; born 22 June 1976) is a Ukrainian chess player holding the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Career She won the European under-16 girls' championship in 1992 and the world under-18 girls' championship in 1994. In 2002 Gaponenko won the European Women's Rapid Chess Championship in Antalya. She won the Ukrainian women's championship in 2008. Gaponenko played for the Ukrainian national team at the biennal Women's Chess Olympiads from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2014. She won team gold medal in 2006, silver in 2008, bronze in 2012 and 2014, and individual gold in 2010 for the best performance on board 4. In the Women's World Team Chess Championship she took team gold in 2013, bronze in 2007 and 2009, and two individual gold medals (in 2007 and 2009). She played also for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the 2013 Women's European Team Chess Championship in Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Prudnikova
Svetlana Prudnikova (russian: Светла́на Алекса́ндровна Пру́дникова, translit=Svetlána Aleksándrovna Prúdnikova; born 18 March 1967) is a Russian- Serbian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won twice both the Russian women's championship, in 1992 and 1998, and the FR Yugoslavia women's championship, in 2000 and 2002. Prudnikova played for the Russian national team in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 1992 and 1996, contributing to a 3rd-place finish in the latter event. Representing her adopted country FR Yugoslavia in 2000, 2002 and 2004, she helped her team to reach a creditable 5th place at the 34th Chess Olympiad in 2000. She won two olympic individual gold medals playing board 2 in both occasions: in 1992 and 2002. Her daughter, Tamara Čurović Tamara Čurović (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамара Чуровић; born 31 October 1994) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Čurović was an official member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman International Master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms (performance benchmarks in competitions including other titled players). Once awarded, titles are held for life except in cases of fraud or cheating. Open titles may be earned by all players, while women's titles are restricted to female players. Many strong female players hold both open and women's titles. FIDE also awards titles for arbiters, organizers and trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE. A chess title, usually in an abbreviated form, may be used as an honorific. For example, Magnus Carlsen may be styled as "GM Magnus Carlsen". History The term "master" for a strong chess player was initially used informally. From the late 19th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Yuanyuan
Xu Yuanyuan (; born March 8, 1981) is a Chinese WGM-titled chess player. Chess career In 1995 Xu won the World U14 Girls Chess Championship held in São Lourenço, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In October 1997 she won the World U16 Girls Chess Championship in Yerevan, and in 2000, also in Yerevan, she won the World Junior Girls U-20 Championship by a large margin – she began with seven consecutive wins and finished with a score of 11/13. On July 11–21, 2003, Xu won the China Women's National Chess Championship (FIDE Zone 3.3 qualifier) held in Yongchuan District, Chongqing, with a final score of 6.5/9. In November 2003, Xu won the Chinese Women's Individual Chess Championship in Shan Wei with a final score of 8.5/11. In April–May 2004, she came joint third in the Chinese Women's Team Chess Championship in Jinan City. She used to be the No. 1 ranked girl chess player in the world on the January 2001 Top 20 Girls FIDE rating list. Her highest position on the Top 50 Women FID ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Zatonskih
Anna Zatonskih ( uk, Ганна Затонських; July 17, 1978) is a Ukrainian American chess player who holds the titles International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a four-time U.S. women's champion, as well as a former Ukrainian women's champion. Career Born July 17, 1978, in Mariupol, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), Zatonskih learned chess at age five from her parents, who are both strong players. Her father Vitaly is rated about 2300, while her mother is a candidate master. Anna beat her mother for the first time at age 14. Zatonskih won many Ukrainian girls' titles in several age categories. In 1999 she was awarded the WGM title by FIDE. She won the Ukrainian Women's Championship in 2001. She represented Ukraine in two Women's Chess Olympiads, at Istanbul 2000 at Bled 2002, and in two Women's European Team Championships, Batumi 1999 (where she won a silver medal on her board) and Leon 2001. She has played on the U.S. national team in al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Khurtsidze
Nino Khurtsidze (28 September 1975 – 22 April 2018) was a Georgian chess player. She was awarded the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1993 and International Master (IM) in 1999. She won the World Girls U-20 Chess Championship in 1993 and 1995. Khurtsidze also won the World Girls U-16 Chess Championship of 1991 in Guarapuava, Brazil, the European U-20 Girls Championship in 1992, the absolute Georgian Chess Championship in 1998 and the women's Georgian championship five times (in 1989, 1993, 2005, 2006 and 2013). She took part in the Women's Interzonal Tournament in 1993 in Jakarta, Indonesia and 1995 in Chişinău, Moldova. These events were part of the Women's World Chess Championship cycle of 1996 and 1999 respectively. In 1998 she won in Rotterdam the Women's championship for Universities, organised by the FISU. Khurtsidze competed in the Women's World Championship held with the knockout format in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2017. Her best res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Stepovaia-Dianchenko
Tatiana Stepovaya (russian: Татьяна Юрьевна Степовая; born 23 September 1965 in Krasnodar, also Tatiana Stepovaya-Dianchenko) is a Russian chess player who holds the title of the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Chess career Stepovaya was Russian Women's Champion in 1987, 1988 and 1989. Many international chess tournament winner: divided the first place with Alisa Galliamova in Rostov-on-Don (1995), won in Tallinn (2002) and won Elisaveta Bykova Memorial in Vladimir (2006). In 2000 in Batumi Stepovaya reached inaugural European Individual Women Chess Championship semi-final, where lost to Natalia Zhukova, and together with the Women's World Chess ex-Champion Maia Chiburdanidze divided 3rd-4th place. In 2001 Stepovaya with Yugoslavian chess club ''Agrouniverzal Zemun'' won the European Chess Club Cup for women. Stepovaya has played for Russia in three Chess Olympiads (1992, 1998-2000). She won team silver (1998) and bronze (2000) medals, and ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (née Arakhamia) is a Georgian (former Soviet Union)-born Scottish Grandmaster of chess. Chess career In 1985, she won the World Junior Chess Championship for Girls, held in Dobrna (and taking silver in Adelaide three years later). Very soon thereafter, she fulfilled the criteria for the Woman International Master title and this was awarded in 1986. Encouraged by these early successes, she quickly developed aspirations to become a Women's World Championship contender and in the course of the qualification cycles of the late eighties and early nineties, proved that she had the ability to compete at the top level. Second place behind Nana Ioseliani in her first Interzonal at Tuzla 1987 was an inspirational start, but she won the 1993 event in Jakarta and the 1995 event in Kishinev. Her performances in the respective Candidates Tournaments ruled out an opportunity to play for the world title. She won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1990. Asid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoang Thanh Trang
Hoàng Thanh Trang (born 25 April 1980) is a Vietnamese-born Hungarian chess grandmaster. She was Asian women's champion in 2000 and European women's champion in 2013. Hoang competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2018. Early life and career Born in Hanoi, Vietnam, Hoàng Thanh Trang moved with her family to Budapest when she was ten years old. She was taught how to play chess at four and half years old by her father, who is her coach. Thanh Trang played in the 1995 Women's Interzonal Tournament in Chișinău. She won the World Girls U-20 Championship in 1998. In 2000, she won Asian Women's Championship in Udaipur. She won the gold medal as the best player on board 1 at the 2005 European Club Cup for Women in Saint-Vincent, Aosta Valley, with a score of 80.0%. The following year she transferred national federations from Vietnam to Hungary. In 2007, she became Grandmaster; the twelfth woman to reach that ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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