Batchimeg Tuvshintugs ( mn, Түвшинтөгсийн Батчимэг, ''Tüvshintögsiin Batchimeg''; born 3 May 1986) is a Mongolian

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player holding the titles of

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(IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). In 2016, Batchimeg was awarded the title State Honored Athlete of Mongolia.

Career

Batchimeg won the Mongolian Women's Chess Championship in 2011 and 2016. In team events, she has represented Mongolia in the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2002, 2012, 2014 and 2016, Women's Asian Team Chess Championship in 2012 and 2016, and

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. She represented the United States from 2005 to 2009. In 2006, Batchimeg competed in the

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, held on March 2–11 in

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. Here she scored 3½ points in the first five rounds against grandmasters (

Alexander Fishbein Alexander Gregory Fishbein (born May 8, 1968 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR as Aleksandr Grigoryevich Fishbein, Russian: Александр Григорьевич Фишбейн) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster ...

, Yury Shulman,

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, Boris Gulko and

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). Her performance in this event earned her a

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for both Woman Grandmaster and International Master titles. In 2013 and 2014, she competed in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series. In the first stage, held in

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, she defeated the top seed, Hou Yifan. Batchimeg achieved her best result in the

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leg, where she finished in joint third place with Harika Dronavalli, Zhao Xue and

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, and earned a norm for the title Grandmaster.

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