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Women's World Team Chess Championship 2009
The Women's World Team Chess Championship 2009 was the second edition of the women's chess event of the World Team Chess Championship. It was played in the Chinese city Ningbo. The Chinese team won their second title. Teams *China "One" # Hou Yifan # Zhao Xue # Shen Yang # Ju Wenjun # Huang Qian *Georgia # Maia Chiburdanidze # Nana Dzagnidze # Lela Javakhishvili # Maia Lomineishvili # Sopiko Khukhashvili *Russia # Tatiana Kosintseva # Nadezhda Kosintseva # Ekaterina Kovalevskaya # Marina Romanko # Valentina Gunina *Ukraina # Anna Ushenina # Natalia Zhukova # Inna Yanovska # Mariya Muzychuk # Natalia Zdebskaya *India # Harika Dronavalli # Tania Sachdev # Kruttika Nadig # Eesha Karavade # Mary Ann Gomes *Poland # Iweta Rajlich # Jolanta Zawadzka # Joanna Majdan # Joanna Dworakowska # Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska *USA # Irina Krush # Anna Zatonskih # Rusudan Goletiani # Alisa Melekhina # Tatev Abrahamian *Armenia # Elina Danielian # Lilit Mkrtchian # Lilit Galoja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Gunina
Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina (russian: Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина; born February 4, 1989, in Murmansk) is a Russian chess grandmaster. She has won thrice the Women's European Individual Chess Championship (2012, 2014, 2018) and four times the Russian Women's Championship (2011, 2013, 2014, 2021). She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012, 2014, at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and at the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017. Gunina won the 2016 London Chess Classic Super Rapidplay Open in one of the best performances for a female at a top level chess tournament, defeating several male Grandmasters along the way. Career Gunina won the gold medal in the 2000 European under-12 girls championship, 2003 world U14 girls championship, 2004 European U16 girls championship and in the 2007 world U18 girls championship. She was the bronze m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Majdan
Joanna Majdan-Gajewska ( Majdan; born 9 June 1988) is a Polish chess player with the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was a member of the national team at the 37th Chess Olympiad, 2006 Chess Olympiad (women's section) in Turin, where she scored 6 points from 9 games. In 2008, she participated at the women's 38th Chess Olympiad, Dresden Chess Olympiad where she scored an excellent 9½ points out of 11 games winning the individual gold medal for the best player on the fourth board. In October 2009 she played at the 8th European Team Chess Championship in Novi Sad, Serbia and won an individual gold medal for being the best player on board five. She is married to compatriot Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster Grzegorz Gajewski. References External links *Joanna Majdan chess games at 365Chess.com * 1988 births Living people Chess Woman Grandmasters Polish female chess players Polish chess players People from Koszalin Sportspeople from West Pomeranian Voivodeship {{Pola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jolanta Zawadzka
Jolanta Zawadzka (born 8 February 1987) is a Polish chess player with the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). In 2004, she won the World Youth Chess Championship for girls U18. She won the women's Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2011, 2015 and 2018. She won the gold medal with the Polish team in the European Team Chess Championship in Göteborg in 2005 and silver medals at the same competitions in Heraklion 2007 and Porto Carras 2011. At the 41st Chess Olympiad The 41st Chess Olympiad ( no, Den 41. Sjakkolympiade), organised by the FIDE, Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took pla ... in 2014 she was member of the Polish team that became 7th in the Women's section. She is the sister of IM Stanisław Zawadzki. References External links Official website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iweta Rajlich
Iweta Rajlich (born Radziewicz, 16 March 1981) is a Polish chess International Master and Woman Grandmaster, multiple winner of Women Chess Championships of Poland. She married Vasik Rajlich, the author of Rybka, on 19 August 2006. Iweta is the tester for the program. The couple presently live in Warsaw, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou .... References External links * 1981 births Living people Polish female chess players Sportspeople from Warsaw Chess International Masters Chess woman grandmasters World Youth Chess Champions {{Poland-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Gomes
Mary Ann Gomes (born 19 September 1989)WGM title application (JPG). FIDE. is an Indian player. She was awarded the title of (WGM) by in 2008. Gomes was born in . She won the Girls Under 10 title at the 1999 Asian Youth Chess Championships in |
Eesha Karavade
Eesha Karavade (born 21 November 1987) is a chess player from Pune, India. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for India in the Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014. Achievements *won the Shiv Chhatrapati Award conferred by Govt. of Maharashtra in 2004. *in 2011: first runner-up, with 8 points out of 11 rounds, in the 38th National Women's Premier Chess Championship at Chennai, which was won by Mary Ann Gomes. *Gold Medalist Commonwealth Chess Championship 2011 in South Africa. *Bronze medalist Asian Individual Women Chess Championship 2011 in Iran. *part of the women chess team that ranked 4th at the 40th Chess Olympiad 2012 at Istanbul. *part of the women chess team that won a gold medal in the Blitz format and silver medal in the Rapid and Standard format at Asian Nations Cup 2014 at Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kruttika Nadig
Kruttika Nadig (born 17 February 1988) is a chess player from Maharashtra, India. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and won the Indian national women's championship in 2008. Nadig competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010; she was knocked out in the first round by compatriot Harika Dronavalli. She played for India in the Women's World Team Chess Championship and Women's Asian Team Chess Championship The Asian Team Chess Championship (recently also called the Asian Nations Chess Cup) is an international team chess tournament open to national federations affiliated to FIDE in Asia and Oceania. It is organized by the Asian Chess Federation, and th ... in 2009, and for India women's team in the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad in 2003. She is also a journalist. References External links * * 1988 births Living people Indian female chess players Indian chess players Chess Woman Grandmasters Place of birth missing (living people) Sportswomen from Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania Sachdev
Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion in 2006 and 2007, one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 and three-time and current Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, 2018 and 2019. She is also a chess presenter and commentator. Early years Born in Delhi, Sachdev was introduced to the game by her mother, Anju, at the age of 6. Her parents provided her with professional training. She achieved her first international title when she was eight. She was coached by K.C. Joshi during her early years. As a child, Tania Sachdev won multiple events. Her career successes are under-12 Indian champion, Asian U14 girls' champion in 2000 and bronze medalist at the 1998 World Youth Chess Championships in the Girls U12 division. In 2002, she won the Asian Junior Girls Championship in Marawila. National and international acclai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harika Dronavalli
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 silve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalia Zdebskaya
Natalia Zdebskaya ( uk, Наталiя Здебська, translit=Nataliya Zdebska; born 16 August 1986) is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2004). Chess career Zdebskaya repeatedly represented Ukraine at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won three medals: silver (in 2003, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls age group) and two bronze (in 2000, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U14 girls age group, and in 2001, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group). She is winner of many international women's chess tournaments, including Sevastopol (2000), Kharkiv (2003), Lyudmila Rudenko memorial in Saint Petersburg (2005), Chișinău (2005), Elisaveta Bykova memorial in Vladimir (2006, 2007). She twice won medals in Ukrainian women's chess championships: silver (2005) and bronze (2006). Zdebskaya played for Ukraine in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariya Muzychuk
Mariya Olehivna Muzychuk ( uk, Марі́я Оле́гівна Музичу́к; born 21 September 1992) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from April 2015 to March 2016. She is also a twice women's champion of Ukraine (2012, 2013), World Team and European Team champion with Ukraine in 2013. Muzychuk has experienced multiple successes with Ukraine at the Women's Chess Olympiad winning gold in 2022, silver in 2018 and bronze in 2012, 2014 and 2016. Career Born in Lviv, Mariya Muzychuk was first taught chess at age two by her parents and at age three she knew all the chess pieces. At age six, Muzychuk took part in her first chess tournament. Muzychuk won the under-10 girls' section at the 2002 European Youth Chess Championship in Peniscola, Spain. In November 2010 she was ranked as the fifth highest rated under-20 female player in the world. She made it to the top-16 of the 2010 Women's World Chess Championship, but lost to Dronavalli Harika i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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