ZHANSAYA ABDUMALIK (born Jan-12-2000, 25 years old) Kazakhstan [what is this?] Grandmaster. WFM (2010); WIM (2011); WGM (2013); International Master (2017); Asian U8 Girls Champion (2008); World U8 Girls Champion (2008); World U12 Girls Champion (2011); World Junior Girls Champion (2017). Abdumalik is currently the top ranked U20 girl in the world (Feb 2019). She won the U8 Girls World Championship in 2008, scored 7/11 in the World U10 (open) Championship 2009, won the World School Champions U11 (Girls) in 2010 and again in 2011 with scores of 9/9 and 8.5 respectively, and came =1st (2nd on count back) with Mongolia's Davaademberel Nominerdene at the World U10 Girls Championship in Halkidiki in 2010, the latter earning her the WFM title. Her 5.5/12 at the IM tournament in Moscow in September 2010 included one win and two draws against FMs whose ratings were over 400 points higher than hers, and five draws against five IMs; ironically her two losses were against untitled players. In May 2011, she won a international Junior (U20) Girls tournament in Indonesia, the result earning her the WIM title, the youngest to do so at the age of 11 years and 5 months. In June 2011, she placed =1st in the 12th ASEAN+ age-group championship 2011 - Girls U20 in Tarakan in Indonesia. In November 2011, she won the Girls U12 World Championship outright with 8/9 (+7 =2 -0). She scored 7/13 in the World Junior Championship (Girls) (2012) and came 2nd at the World Girls U12 World Championship behind India's R. Vaishali. 2012 saw her best "open" result to date, when she scored an undefeated 7/11 (+3 =8) at the Alushta Summer event in June against a strong field that included 2 GMs, 5 IMs, a WIM and a WFM. 2013 started with 3rd place in the Championship of Shymkent area (Kazakhstan) behind Guliskhan Nakhbayeva and Berik Akkozov. In February 2013 she competed in the Kazakhstan Junior Championship (aka "The championship of Kazakhstan among young men till 20 years"), holding her own with 6/9 and placing 4th behind Vyacheslav Lozhnikov, Zhanat Saiyn and Ilyas Sodikov. She had a successful campaign in the World Women's Team Championship scoring 3/6, adding 22 rating points to her card, and then followed up with 6/9 at the Bangkok Chess Club Open 2013, with 6/9, adding a further 27 points to her rating card. =1st at the Women's Kazakhistan Championship in 2013 has further boosted her stocks. She recorded an excellent 5.5/9 result at the 6th Karen Asrian Memorial tournament, the 13-year old defeating GM Hovik Hayrapetyan and GM Artur Chibukhchian. In September 2013, the 13 year-old was runner up and outright second to Aleksandra Goryachkina in the World Junior Championship (Girls) (2013) with a stunning result of 9.5/13 (+8 -2 =3), providing her with the rating boost she needed to acquire the WGM title. She produced another excellent result in November 2013 when she won the Brno Open in the Czech Republic with 7.5/9, a clear point ahead of the field. She finished 2013 with a strong 5.5/7 result at the International Aschacher Donau Open. She started 2014 at Gibraltar Masters (2014), scoring a solid 5.5/10, including a win against GM Felipe de Cresce El Debs and draws against GMs Ziaur Rahman and Anna Muzychuk, and then followed with a relatively poor performance at the Bad Woerishofen Open where she scored only 6/9, shedding rating points and a couple of world rankings in the U14 division. She played board 3 for Kazakhstan in the Tromso Olympiad (Women) (2014), helping her country to place 6th in the event, 11 places ahead of its number 17 seeding. Abdumalik finished 2014 with a flourish, defeating 3 GMs at the powerful Qatar Masters (2014) and scoring 5/9 at the Al Ain Classic, accumulating 37 points in these two events. In 2017, she became World Junior Champion (Girls) by winning the World Junior Championship (Girls) (2017) with 9.5 points in eleven rounds. Abdumalik is the youngest student in the Kazakh-British Technical University. In January 2014, Anatoly Karpov visited Almaty in Kazakhstan to open the newly established Zhansaya Abdumalik Chess Academy. (1) References / Sources (1) http://www.chessdom.com/anatoly-kar... Wikipedia article: Zhansaya Abdumalik Last updated: 2022-01-10 12:05:55

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page 1 of 25; games 1-25 of 617  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Z Abdumalik vs I Furtado ½-½ 36 2007 Wch U08 Girls B07 Pirc 2. A Obolentseva vs Z Abdumalik   0-1 39 2010 Wch U10 Girls A37 English, Symmetrical 3. Z Abdumalik vs T Tuomala   0-1 38 2011 11th BCC Thailand Open B28 Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation 4. A Obolentseva vs Z Abdumalik   0-1 28 2011 World School-ch U11 Girls 7th A44 Old Benoni Defense 5. Z Abdumalik vs Z Andriasian 0-1 32 2012 14th Dubai Open B06 Robatsch 6. B Nonkovic vs Z Abdumalik   1-0 35 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) A30 English, Symmetrical 7. Z Abdumalik vs E Chiarion   1-0 26 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 8. T Galunova vs Z Abdumalik   ½-½ 56 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) B22 Sicilian, Alapin 9. Z Abdumalik vs S Liao   1-0 60 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) C05 French, Tarrasch 10. A Imeeva vs Z Abdumalik   1-0 32 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 11. Z Abdumalik vs A Stancin   0-1 56 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 12. D Vatkali vs Z Abdumalik   0-1 60 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) B40 Sicilian 13. Z Abdumalik vs S Ibrahimova   1-0 57 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) B32 Sicilian 14. K Cemhan vs Z Abdumalik   0-1 45 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 15. Z Abdumalik vs L Schut   1-0 27 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) B96 Sicilian, Najdorf 16. M Aulia vs Z Abdumalik   1-0 40 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) B41 Sicilian, Kan 17. Z Abdumalik vs A Kashlinskaya   ½-½ 33 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) C45 Scotch Game 18. P Rodriguez Rueda vs Z Abdumalik   1-0 64 2012 World Junior Championship (Girls) A43 Old Benoni 19. Z Abdumalik vs O Girya   0-1 60 2013 Women's World Team Championship B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 20. I Gaponenko vs Z Abdumalik   0-1 40 2013 Women's World Team Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 21. Z Abdumalik vs C Voicu-Jagodzinsky   ½-½ 45 2013 Women's World Team Championship B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 22. S Swaminathan vs Z Abdumalik   ½-½ 32 2013 Women's World Team Championship B42 Sicilian, Kan 23. Z Abdumalik vs Q Guo 0-1 27 2013 Women's World Team Championship B15 Caro-Kann 24. Z Abdumalik vs N Khurtsidze 1-0 48 2013 Women's World Team Championship B42 Sicilian, Kan 25. Z Abdumalik vs K G Hovhannisyan   1-0 34 2013 6th Karen Asrian Mem B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3  page 1 of 25; games 1-25 of 617

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-24-15    alexmagnus: < Karpov Trophy, a rapid round-robin tournament in Cap d'Agde (Karpov himself takes part!):> Karpov already even won the Karpov trophy at least once. I don't get the thrill in playing for a trophy of one's own name. Jan-12-16    sonia91: Happy 16th birthday! Mar-14-16    perfidious: <alexmagnus: WIM rated 2030... Those automatic titles for winning youth championships are somewhat misleading...> They can be without a doubt, but this young lady has since got there and then some. She will be a full on GM one day. May-15-16    sonia91: She won a few days ago the Kazakhstan women's championship: http://chess-results.com/tnr220013.... Nov-09-16    sonia91: She finished 3rd (score 7/9) in the Oslo Chess Festival, which was won by Igor Kovalenko with 8.5/9 (!): http://chess24.com/en/read/news/kov... May-16-17    BIDMONFA: Zhansaya Abdumalik ABDUMALIK, Zhansaya http://www.bidmonfa.com/abdumalik_z... _ Jul-05-17    offramp: She is currently equal first in the 45th Annual World Open which is being held from June 29-July 4, 2017 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event has a $225,000 prize fund. Top standings: 1 GM Jeffery Xiong 2658 6.5 2 GM Tigran L Petrosian 2595 6.5 3 GM Oliver Barbosa 2511 6.5 4 IM Zhansaya Abdumalik 2397 6.5 5 GM Liem Quang Le 2726 6.0... etc. See http://chessevents.com/2017/07/worl... . Jul-05-17    offramp: It looks like she has finished equal second. She drew in the last round with Jeffrey Xiong, but Petrosian beat Barbosa. Jul-05-17    offramp: She was top in her Elo range, and won $5,000. Petrosian made a lot of money! 1 GM Tigran L Petrosian 7.5 1st $20500.00 2 GM Liem Quang Le 7.0 2nd-6th $3960.00 3 GM Jeffery Xiong 7.0 2nd-6th $3960.00 4 GM Yuniesky Quesada Perez 7.0 2nd-6th $3960.00 5 GM Jianchao Zhou 7.0 2nd-6th $3960.00 6 GM Andrey Stukopin 7.0 2nd-6th $3960.00 <7 IM Zhansaya Abdumalik 7.0 1st 2300-2449 $5000.00.> Jul-10-17    sonia91: She also achieved a GM norm in the World Open: http://en.chessbase.com/post/world-... Nov-06-17    whiteshark: Illustrated Report about the Kazakh classic+rapid+blitz Tournament 2017 in Alma-Ata: http://chesspro.ru/details/zhansaya... Dec-09-17    Tabanus: And after that, she participated in the World Junior Championship (Girls) (2017), with a decent result. Dec-12-17    sonia91: Congratulations on becoming World Junior Girls Champion! After a silver in 2013 and a bronze in 2015, Zhansaya finally takes the gold medal. Interview after the closing cerimony: http://www.chessdom.com/interview-w... Dec-13-17    sonia91: Another interesting interview on winning the World Juniors: http://www.chessdom.com/zhansaya-ab... Sep-08-18    wordfunph: finally a GM title in 2018.. https://ratings.fide.com/title_appl... Oct-01-18    sonia91: <wordfunph> She still have to cross 2500. Feb-08-19    OhioChessFan: Anyone else think she could star in an NCIS series? Jan-22-20    Penguincw: 20th seed GM Tabatabaei is the highest seed to lose a game in the first 2 rounds of Gibraltar 2020 after being upset by IM Abdumalik in Round 2. Z Abdumalik vs M A Tabatabaei, 2020 Feb-19-20    Penguincw: She will end up with a solid 5/8 (plus a half point bye). Gained 10 rating points. Jun-01-21    cro777: Zhansaya Abdumalik has become Kazakhstan's first woman to earn a Grandmaster title! She has just won the Gibraltar FIDE Women's Grand Prix with one round to spare. It is the last of four stages of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix, which will determine two places in the 2021 Candidates Tournament. A final GM norm in this event also earns her the title of grandmaster. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2zJ5wh... Dec-13-21    Albertan: Chess player Zhansaya Abdumalik receives Kurmat Order: https://www.inform.kz/en/chess-play... Congratulation Zhansaya! Here is a link to an explanation of what this order is awarded for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order... Mar-25-23    fabelhaft: The third Grand Prix tournament for women was supposed to have started today, but when there allegedly were no FIDE functionaries present, no transport arranged to the hotel, the rooms were not prepared and breakfast turned out not to be included, Abdumalik just went home. The Indian players asked to take her place refused. Several other players have been replaced, the Muzychuk sisters refused to participate. Head of FIDE Dvorkovich published an excuse directed to all players except Abdumalik. Maybe it will start tomorrow? Mar-26-23    SChesshevsky: <Head of FIDE...> As I've mentioned over on the Nepom-Ding match page, think chess.com wants to be the top mover in chess. This situation might give them an opportunity on the women's side. If there was a Billie Jean King type organizer or a woman Rex S. type sponsor, now might be the time to think about developing an alternative to a FIDE women's world championship cycle. In association with chess.com. The benefits to the online company could be noticeable. Has to be a stature boost in having an official world championship in the fold. Plus a strengthening of their hold on female chess. Guessing that though the percentage of female members at .com may not be sizable. But could be meaningful and would only likely grow. Could also benefit women's chess. May get it more opportunities for sponsorship. May attract more attention and viewership. May provide a more solid platform for growth. In this tournament case, seems the typical FIDE inflexibility again causes problems. Should have been some way for organizers and players to reach some workable solution. Even after Zhansaya's withdrawal. Which given the circumstances doesn't seem unreasonable. Mar-26-23    fabelhaft: All the (at the moment) remaining players signed a letter asking the event to be postponed or cancelled, and the fourth Grand Prix event that was supposed to take place in Poland has now been removed from the FIDE schedule. No one seems to have any idea what is going on, if the event will be held, with which players or when. The first round was supposed to have been played yesterday. Mar-26-23    fabelhaft: Paehtz withdrew too, but the event did really start today, with the tournament director shaking the hands of the players at the start of the games, something Goryachkina refused to do… Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 3) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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