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Women's World Chess Championship 2008
The Women's World Chess Championship 2008 took place from August 28, 2008 to September 18 in Nalchik, Russia. It was won by Alexandra Kosteniuk, who beat Hou Yifan in the final by 2½ to 1½. For the fifth time, the championship took the form of a 64-player knock-out tournament. Participants Players were seeded by their Elo ratings (July 2008 list), except that defending champion Xu Yuhua was the no. 1 seed. Qualification paths *WC: Women's World Champion and semi-finalists of the Women's World Chess Championship 2006 (3) *J06 and J07: World Junior Champions 2006 and 2007 *R: Rating (average of the FIDE rating lists of July 2006 and January 2007) (6) *E06 and E07: European Individual Chess Championships 2006 and 2007 (28) *AM: American Continental Chess Championship 2007 (2) *AS: Asian Chess Championship 2007 (4) *AF: African Chess Championship 2007 (3) * Z2.1 (3), Z2.3, Z2.4, Z2.5, Z3.1, Z3.2, Z3.3, Z3.4, Z3.5 (4): Zonal tournaments *PN: FIDE President nominee (2) A ... [...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] |
Anna Muzychuk
Anna Olehivna Muzychuk ( uk, Анн́а Оле́гівна Музичу́к; sl, Ana Muzičuk; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been ranked as high as No. 197 in the world, and No. 2 among women. Muzychuk is a three-time world champion in fast chess, having won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2014 and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016. In classical chess, she was the 2017 Women's World Championship runner-up. Muzychuk grew up in a chess family where her younger sister Mariya also became a Grandmaster and her parents work as chess coaches, having taught her the game from when she was two years old. She soon established herself as a chess prodigy, first winning the European Youth Chess Championships at age six in the under-8 girls' category and later winning the under-10, under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Korbut
Ekaterina Valerievna Korbut (born February 9, 1985 in Tashkent) is a Russian chess player, who holds the titles of International master and Woman Grandmaster. She won the World Junior Chess Championship (Girls) in 2004, and the Russian women's championship in 2006. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2006 but went out to Anna Ushenina in the first round. She qualified for the 2008 championship but did not take part. She has played no serious chess since 2008; according to her friend Ekaterina Atalik Ekaterina Atalik (née Polovnikova; born 14 November 1982 in Kirov) is a Russian- Turkish chess player, who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the European Youth Chess Championship in the under-1 ... she married and had a daughter, and is now focused on her family life. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Korbut, Ekaterina 1985 births Living people Chess International Masters Chess woman gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadezhda Kosintseva
Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kosintseva (russian: Надежда Анатольевна Косинцева; born 14 January 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010 and 2012, and in the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009 and 2011. Career At the European Youth Chess Championship, Kosintseva took gold medals in 1995 (Girls Under-10, Verdun), 1997 (Girls Under-12, Tallinn, Estonia) and 2000 (Girls Under-18, Kallithea, Greece). At the World Youth Chess Championship of 1998, held in Oropesa del Mar, Spain, she took the gold medal in the Girls Under-14 event. She was twice the bronze medalist at the World Junior Chess Championship (Girls, Under-20) in 2001 and 2002. In 2005, she tied for first place with Kateryna Lahno in the European Individual Women's Championship, held in Chișinău, Moldova. Kosintseva took the silver medal after losing the playoff match. In the 2007 editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dronavalli Harika
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Dronavalli was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India. In 2016, she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event at Chengdu, China and rose up from world no. 11 to world no. 5 in FIDE women's ranking. Vladimir Kramnik, Judit Polgar and Viswanathan Anand are her chess inspirations. In 2019, she was awarded the Padma Shri for her contributions towards the field of sports. Early life Harika was born to Ramesh and Swarna Dronavalli on 12 January 1991 in Guntur where she attended Sri Venkateswara Bala Kuteer school Her father works as a deputy executive engineer at a Panchayat Raj subdivision in Mangalagiri. She started playing chess at a very young age and won a medal in the under-9 national championship. She followed it up with a silver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lela Javakhishvili
Lela Javakhishvili (born 23 April 1984) is a Georgian chess player who holds the titles of International master and Woman Grandmaster. She has won the Georgian women's chess championship twice, and competed in the 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, wh ... four times, most recently in 2012 when she made it to the third round. External links * 1984 births Living people Chess International Masters Chess woman grandmasters Female chess players from Georgia (country) {{Georgia-chess-bio-stub ... [...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] |
Irina Krush
Irina Borisivna Krush ( uk, Ірина Борисівна Круш; born December 24, 1983) is an American chess Grandmaster. She is the first woman, and as of August 2022 the only woman, to earn the GM title while playing for the United States. Krush is an eight-time U.S. Women's Champion. Early life Irina Krush was born in Odessa, USSR (now Ukraine). She learned to play chess at age five, emigrating with her parents to Brooklyn that same year (1989). Chess career At age 14, Krush won the 1998 U.S. Women's Chess Championship to become the youngest U.S. women's champion ever. She has won the championship on seven other occasions, in 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2020. In 1999, Krush took part in the "Kasparov versus the World" chess competition. Garry Kasparov played the white pieces and the Internet public, via a Microsoft host website, voted on moves for the black pieces, guided by the recommendations of Krush and three of her contemporaries, Étienne Bacrot, Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Soćko
Monika Soćko (née Bobrowska; born 24 March 1978) is a Polish chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Grandmaster (GM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the Polish women's chess championship eight times (in 1995, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017). Career In 2007, Soćko won an international women's tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan ahead of former Women's World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova. In 2008, she was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE, becoming the first and, to date, only Polish female player to achieve this. The following year, she won the Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø, Norway in spite of being only ranked as number 16 before the tournament, while her top-ranked husband, Bartosz Soćko, finished in 13th place. In March 2010, she won the bronze medal at the Women's European Individual Chess Championship edging out Yelena Dembo and Marie Sebag on tie-breaks. In 2014 Soćko won the Erfurt Woman Grandmaster round-robin tournament. In 2017 she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Ushenina
Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina (; born 30 August 1985) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013. Personal life Ushenina lives in Kharkiv, where she was born. She is of Jewish ethnicity. Determined that the young Ushenina should develop intellectual and creative talents, her mother introduced her to chess at the age of seven, along with painting and music. She became the Ukrainian Girls' (under 20) champion at 15 years. Many of her chess skills have been self-taught, although in 2000–2002, she studied chess in the Kharkiv sports school of Olympic reserve. During this period, her coach was International Master Artiom Tsepotan. Afterwards she received more coaching at a specialist facility in Kramatorsk. National success At the national Ukrainian Women's Championship, her progress and achievements have been noteworthy. In 2003 (Mykolaiv) and 2004 (Alushta), she finished in fourth and sixth places respectively, thereaft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Pähtz
Elisabeth Pähtz (born January 8, 1985, sometimes spelt Elisabeth Paehtz) is a German chess Grandmaster.4th FIDE Council Meeting: List of decisions FIDE, 6 December 2022Paehtz, Elisabeth FIDE, accessed 6 December 2022 She has been among the strongest German female chess players since her youth. In 2002, Pähtz became the World Youth Champion of the girls' under-18 age group, and in 2005, the World Junior Girls Champion ... [...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] |
