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Natalia Zhukova
Number of games in database: 530
Years covered: 1995 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2471
Highest rating achieved in database: 2499
Overall record: +171 -97 =213 (57.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      49 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Indian (28)      E76 E81 E90 E70 E80  Queen's Gambit Declined (27)      D38 D37 D35 D30 D31  Queen's Indian (22)      E15 E16 E12 E17 E14  Queen's Pawn Game (22)      A46 A41 E10 A40 A45  Nimzo Indian (19)      E21 E32 E20 E53 E54  Slav (19)      D15 D17 D11 D10 D12	With the Black pieces:  French Defense (77)      C11 C03 C02 C18 C00  French (30)      C11 C00 C12 C10  Slav (25)      D10 D15 D13 D11 D12  Queen's Pawn Game (22)      D02 A46 D00 E10 E00  Semi-Slav (19)      D45 D46 D47 D48 D43  French Tarrasch (19)      C03 C05 C06 C04 C07

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   T Molchanova vs N Zhukova, 2009 0-1
   N Zhukova vs C Peptan, 2008 1-0
   N Zhukova vs T Shadrina, 2001 1-0
   N Zhukova vs Ju Wenjun, 2012 1/2-1/2

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NATALIA ZHUKOVA (born Jun-05-1979) Ukraine [what is this?] She is a GM and a WGM. Zhukova was European Women's Champion in 2000. She competed in the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012), and eliminated WGM Qi Guo and GM Koneru Humpy before bowing out in the third round when she lost to WGM Ju Wenjun in the tiebreaker. Wikipedia article: Natalia Zhukova

page 1 of 22; games 1-25 of 530  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. S Petrenko vs N Zhukova   0-1 45 1995 Interzonal (Women) B02 Alekhine's Defense 2. A Galliamova vs N Zhukova   1-0 43 1995 02 A11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System 3. V Malakhatko vs N Zhukova   ½-½ 37 1996 Yalta op D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 4. N Zhukova vs M Litinskaya-Shul   1-0 75 1996 UKR-ch (Women) A43 Old Benoni 5. N Zhukova vs Chiburdanidze   1-0 33 1998 Belgrade (Women) E14 Queen's Indian 6. Y Shulman vs N Zhukova   ½-½ 10 1998 Novak Nikolic mem 1st D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 7. N Zhukova vs Nisipeanu   0-1 35 1998 MK Cafe Cup B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack 8. N Zhukova vs A Stefanova   ½-½ 24 1998 Women's It, Belgrade YUG D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 9. N Zhukova vs Chiburdanidze   ½-½ 32 1998 Elista ol (Women) A46 Queen's Pawn Game 10. Y Kruppa vs N Zhukova   1-0 55 1999 UKR-chT A11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System 11. N Zhukova vs M Litinskaya-Shul   1-0 30 1999 Alushta zt (Women) A15 English 12. Wang Lei vs N Zhukova   0-1 46 2000 WCC D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 13. N Zhukova vs Y Xu   ½-½ 35 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 14. Hoang Thanh Trang vs N Zhukova   0-1 46 2000 WCC D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 15. N Zhukova vs Xie Jun   ½-½ 19 2000 34th Olympiad Women A65 Benoni, 6.e4 16. J Dworakowska vs N Zhukova   0-1 36 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO C11 French 17. Hoang Thanh Trang vs N Zhukova   ½-½ 14 2000 WCC D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 18. N Zhukova vs Xie Jun   ½-½ 26 2000 WCC A48 King's Indian 19. E Sziva vs N Zhukova   ½-½ 44 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO C11 French 20. N Zhukova vs Hoang Thanh Trang   ½-½ 20 2000 WCC A46 Queen's Pawn Game 21. N Zhukova vs Hoang Thanh Trang   ½-½ 9 2000 WCC A04 Reti Opening 22. N Zhukova vs Y Xu   1-0 52 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 23. N Zhukova vs Velimirovic   1-0 42 2000 Novak Nikolic mem 2nd A43 Old Benoni 24. A Galliamova vs N Zhukova   ½-½ 39 2000 Women's Olympiad C14 French, Classical 25. N Zhukova vs E Sziva   1-0 58 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO E81 King's Indian, Samisch  page 1 of 22; games 1-25 of 530    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Zhukova wins | Zhukova loses

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-09-07    twinlark: FIDE has awarded Zhukova a GM title conditional on her achieving a 2500 ELO: http://fide.com/news.asp?id=1466 . Nov-17-08    whiteshark: Natalia Zhukova @ Dresden 2008: http://chessbase.de/2008/dresdenoly... Feb-17-09    technical draw: There is a really beautiful Zhukova photo in the New in Chess, January 2009 issue, taken at the last olympics in Dresden. Feb-17-09    technical draw: BTW she looks a lot like my daughter-in-law. A real beauty from Medellin, Colombia. Feb-17-09    Jim Bartle: I don't get it, TD. Oh. You're being serious. Feb-17-09    technical draw: <JB> I'm sorry. I was just overwhelmed by her beauty. It won't happen again. Feb-17-09    Jim Bartle: Not without a link, at least! Feb-01-10    shalgo: Zhukova is having a fantastic tournament in Gibraltar. After 7 rounds, she is tied for the lead. She has played 5 GMs, beating Edouard and Lopez Martinez, and drawing with Adams, Cheparinov, and Malakhatko. Her TPR is well over 2700. Mar-17-10    kwi: She finally gets her rating above 2500 (2500.7 to be exact). Congrats to our new GM! Mar-18-10    alexapple: Yes, Zhukova finally hits 2500 for her GM dream! Congratulations! May-08-10    sonia91: Congratulations for achieving GM title! May-08-10    HeMateMe: How many women now have the full GM title? May-09-10    BobCrisp: According to FIDE's rating list, she'll be the 19th active female GM. May-09-10    HeMateMe: thats a <crisp> response! Jun-12-10    GrahamClayton: <kwi>She finally gets her rating above 2500 (2500.7 to be exact). Congrats to our new GM! <kwi>, Zhukova has achieved 7 GM norms, so it is great that she has reached 2500 and "officially" become a WGM. Jul-19-10    Remizatorul: Nice pics gallery here... http://remizatorul.weebly.com/13/po... Oct-29-10    rapidcitychess: Lucky! I'm still working on my title. ;) Sep-02-11    Jeffsteeven: Did Zhukova had a 2711 ELO FIDE? Is that true? Sep-02-11    SimonWebbsTiger: @<jeffsteven> FIDE have a page, you know. ;o) http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... Sep-02-11    Jeffsteeven: SimonWebbsTiger thanks for the answer Sep-27-11    waustad: I suspect that the 2700+ is in error. Perhaps the same last name? Nov-15-12    waustad: She eliminated Humpy Koneru from this years WWCC. Nov-15-12    HeMateMe: Will she have the goods to take on yifan in a match? She seems a likely contender. Mar-18-13    MikhailGolubev: TV interview with GM Zhukova (in Russian; November 2012): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnRq... Apr-29-13    MikhailGolubev: Odessa chess TV program Shkola Chempionov with GM Natalia Zhukova (March 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Nh... Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 3) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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