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Women's Event At The 45th Chess Olympiad
The women's event at the 45th Chess Olympiad was from 11 to 22 September 2024. It was contested by a record number of 183 teams, representing 181 nations. Hungary, as host nation, fielded three teams. A total of 909 players participated in the open event. India won the gold medal in the Women's event, which was their first overall win at the Chess Olympiads. Kazakhstan won the silver and the United States took the bronze medals. Dana Kochavi, playing as a reserve for Israel, had the highest rating performance of 2676 by achieving a perfect score of 8 out of 8 possible points. Individual gold medals were also won by Zhu Jiner of China with 7 out of 9 and a rating performance of 2597, Carissa Yip of the United States who had the highest individual score in the tournament of 10 out of 11 with a rating performance of 2634, Divya Deshmukh who scored 9½ out of 11 with a rating performance of 2608, and Vantika Agrawal of India with 7½ out of 9 and a rating performance of 2558. Compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...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 was part of the gold winning women's team at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024. She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Harika 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. 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 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Muzychuk
Anna Olehivna Muzychuk (; ; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian Grandmaster (chess), chess 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 World Rapid Chess Championship, Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2016 and the World Blitz Chess Championship, Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016. In Glossary of chess#classical, classical chess, she was the 2017 Women's World Chess Championship, Women's World Championship runner-up. Muzychuk grew up in a chess family where her younger sister Mariya Muzychuk, Mariya (the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, 2015 Women's World Champion in classical chess) also became a Grandmaster. Her parents work as chess coaches, having taught her the game from when she was two years old. She soon established herself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Śliwicka
Alicja Śliwicka (born 1 September 2001) is a Polish chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster in 2024. Biography Śliwicka many times participated in the Polish Youth Chess Championships in different girls' age groups, where she won five medals: gold (2015 – U14), three silver (2009 – U08, 2011 – U10, 2013 – U12) and bronze (2007 – U07). She repeatedly represented Poland at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won three medals: 2 gold (in 2011, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U10 girls age group; in 2019, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls age group) and silver (in 2015, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U14 girls age group). In 2010, in Warsaw Alicja Śliwicka won European Youth Chess Blitz Championship in the U10 girls age group. Alicja Śliwicka three times participated in the European Girls' U18 Team Chess Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliwia Kiołbasa
Oliwia Kiołbasa (; born 26 April 2000) is a Polish chess player. Chess career She has won the girls' under-10 European Youth Chess Championship, and was runner-up in the girls' under-14 World Youth Chess Championship. FIDE awarded Kiołbasa the Woman International Master title in 2016. In August 2021, Kiołbasa finished third in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship. She earned her first norm for the International Master (IM) title. Kiołbasa earned a second IM norm in the Polski Ekstraliga in October. Kiołbasa represented Poland in the 2022 Chess Olympiad, winning her first nine games. She finished the tournament with 9.5 points out of 11 rounds. She earned her third and final IM norm, which qualified her for the IM title. She was the best individual player in the women's event. She defeated IM Vaishali R, which clinched a match win for Poland against India's first team. Her only loss was in the last round against Ukrainian GM Anna Ushenina. In May 2024, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandra Maltsevskaya
Aleksandra Maltsevskaya (, ; born 5 July 2002) is a Russian-born Polish chess player who holds the FIDE title of International Master (IM). Biography Aleksandra Maltsevskaya was a Rostov-on-Don chess school schoolgirl. In 2015, she won the Russian Youth Chess Championship in the U15 Girls age group. In the 2000s, Maltsevskaya repeatedly represented Russia at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won six medals: gold (in 2016, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U14 girls age group), two silver (in 2015, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U14 girls age group, and in 2016, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U14 girls age group) and two bronze (in 2012, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U10 girls age group, and in 2017, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group). In 2013, she won silver medal in World School Chess Championship in the U11 girls ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024–25
The 2024–2025 edition of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix was a series of six chess tournaments exclusively for women which determined two players to play in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2026. The winner of the Candidates Tournament would play the reigning world champion in the Women's World Chess Championship 2026. This is the seventh cycle of the tournament series. Each of 16 players had to participate in three out of six tournaments, and every tournament was a ten-player Round-robin tournament, round robin event. The tournaments were held between 2024 and 2025. Zhu Jiner and Aleksandra Goryachkina were the top two finishers of the series, and qualified to play in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2026. Players 20 players qualified for the Grand Prix. The twenty players to qualify for WGP shall be determined according to the following criteria: * A. 2 spots – FIDE Women's World Championship Match 2023 participants: GM Ju Wenjun and GM Lei Tingjie * B. 2 spots – FIDE W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alina Kashlinskaya
Alina Anatolyevna Kashlinskaya (; born 28 October 1993) is a Russian chess player playing for Poland. She holds the titles International Master and Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2014 and 2009, respectively. Kashlinskaya is the 2019 European Women's Individual Chess Champion. Career In 2003, Kashlinskaya took the silver medal at the European Youth Chess Championships in the Girls U10 category. In August 2010, she was part of the Russian women's team in the 7th China-Russia Match, held with the Scheveningen system. Kashlinskaya took part in the women's section of the 39th Chess Olympiad playing for Russia B team. She won an individual silver medal playing on board five. In 2011, Kashlinskaya took silver at the World Youth Chess Championships in the Girls U18 section. The following year, she placed second at the World University Chess Championship in the women's section. Later that year, in December, she took part in the 5th "Snowdrops vs Old Hands" - Czech Coal M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salome Melia
Salome Melia ( ka, სალომე მელია; born 14 April 1987 in Batumi) FIDE is a Georgian player who holds the of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was a member of the gold medal-winning Georgian team at the 2015 Women's in . She won twice the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Khotenashvili
Bella Khotenashvili ( ka, ბელა ხოტენაშვილი; born 1 June 1988), known prior to 2023 as Bela Khotenashvili, is a Georgian chess grandmaster. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Career Khotenashivili won the World Youth Chess Championship in the girls under-16 category in 2004. In 2009, she won the Maia Chiburdanidze Cup tournament edging out Lela Javakhishvili on tiebreak score. In 2011, she tied for first place with Nino Batsiashvili in the Group D tournament at the 9th Khazar International Open in Rasht, Iran. Khotenashvili won the Georgian Women's Championship in 2012. In 2013 and 2014, Khotenashivili took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series as host city nominee of Tbilisi. She won the first stage, which took place in Geneva. With this victory she achieved her third and final norm required for the title Grandmaster. In December 2014, she won the best woman's prize in the first edition of the Qa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Batsiashvili
Nino Batsiashvili ( ka, ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess grandmaster and 4-time and the current Georgian women's chess champion. Career In 2012, she won the Group E (women's section of the RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup) of the Moscow Open. In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial in Wrocław, Poland on tiebreak over Joanna Majdan-Gajewska. In 2015, she won the Women's Georgian Chess Championship and finished second in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship. She was a member of the Georgian team that won the gold medal in the Women's World Team Chess Championship 2015, held in Chengdu, China. Batsiashvili also won the individual bronze medal on board four. In December 2015 she drew against the then reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Qatar Masters Open. In 2016 Batsiashvili took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series. She finished second in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
