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Anna Zatonskih
Number of games in database: 459
Years covered: 1997 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2466
Highest rating achieved in database: 2537
Overall record: +170 -90 =130 (60.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      69 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (44)      B22 B20 B32 B47 B41  King's Indian (21)      E67 E76 E62 E63 E60  French Defense (19)      C02 C10 C04 C03 C05  Queen's Pawn Game (13)      D02 E10 A40 A45 A41  Ruy Lopez (13)      C92 C94 C78 C97 C70  French Tarrasch (11)      C04 C03 C05 C06 C07	With the Black pieces:  French Defense (67)      C10 C02 C11 C07 C01  French (33)      C10 C11 C00  Queen's Pawn Game (23)      D00 A46 D02 A41 D05  Queen's Gambit Declined (23)      D31 D37 D35  French Tarrasch (15)      C07 C09 C05  Nimzo Indian (15)      E32 E54 E20 E30 E46

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Votava vs A Zatonskih, 2004 0-1
   R Goletiani vs A Zatonskih, 2009 0-1
   I Krush vs A Zatonskih, 2009 0-1
   P Charbonneau vs A Zatonskih, 2004 0-1
   N K Ortiz vs A Zatonskih, 2002 0-1
   A Zatonskih vs A Melekhina, 2007 1-0
   R Forthofer vs A Zatonskih, 2006 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   US Women's Championship (2007)
   US Women's Championship (2008)
   2008 Women's Olympiad (2008)
   Gibtelecom (2009)
   US Women's Chess Championship (2009)
   Gibraltar (2010)
   USA Women Championship (2010)
   Tradewise Gibraltar (2011)
   US Championship (Women) (2012)
   Chess Olympiad (Women) (2012)
   Tradewise Gibraltar (2012)
   US Chess Championships (Women) (2013)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Zatonskih! by larrewl

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ANNA ZATONSKIH (born Jul-17-1978) Ukraine (citizen of United States of America) [what is this?] Anna Zatonskih was born in Mariupol, Ukraine. She learned chess at age 5 and won girls' championships of Ukraine in several different age categories before finally winning the "overall" women's championship in 2001 and 2002. She became a WGM (Woman Grand Master) in 1999 and obtained the International Master title in 2003. She represented the USA 2010 (Women's) Olympiad team on 2nd board & was part of the American team that won the silver medal in the 36th Olympiad, Women (2004). Zatonskih won the US Women's Championship in 2006, 2008 and 2009, and most recently US Championship (Women) (2011). She currently lives with her husband, GM Daniel Fridman, in Ohio. She qualified for the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012) winning her first round match with 4-times Argentinian Women's Champion, IM Carolina Lujan before losing to WGM Ju Wenjun in the second round. Wikipedia article: Anna Zatonskih Live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/women

page 1 of 19; games 1-25 of 459  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Litinskaya-Shul vs A Zatonskih   1-0 50 1997 ROM-chT E15 Queen's Indian 2. A Zatonskih vs M Litinskaya-Shul   ½-½ 23 1997 Predeal op B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 3. V Gordon vs A Zatonskih   1-0 42 1998 UKR-ch U20 Girls B22 Sicilian, Alapin 4. M Litinskaya-Shul vs A Zatonskih   1-0 31 1998 ROM-chT E12 Queen's Indian 5. A Zatonskih vs Y Kruppa   0-1 38 1999 UKR-chT C04 French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line 6. A Zatonskih vs A Korotylev   1-0 31 1999 October GM B06 Robatsch 7. A Zatonskih vs Savon   ½-½ 14 1999 October GM C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed 8. Jobava vs A Zatonskih   ½-½ 65 1999 Kharkov E15 Queen's Indian 9. A Zatonskih vs M Arribas   1-0 52 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO C04 French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line 10. M Arribas vs A Zatonskih   1-0 76 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO C02 French, Advance 11. Zhu Chen vs A Zatonskih   1-0 50 2000 Women's Olympiad E12 Queen's Indian 12. A Zatonskih vs M Arribas   0-1 52 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO C41 Philidor Defense 13. A Zatonskih vs M Arribas   1-0 42 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO C10 French 14. M Arribas vs A Zatonskih   ½-½ 36 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 15. M Arribas vs A Zatonskih   1-0 60 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO C02 French, Advance 16. M Arribas vs A Zatonskih   1-0 48 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO C02 French, Advance 17. A Zatonskih vs M Arribas   1-0 57 2000 FIDE WCh Women KO C04 French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line 18. N Zdebskaja vs A Zatonskih   0-1 43 2001 ch-UKR Women E46 Nimzo-Indian 19. M Litinskaya-Shul vs A Zatonskih   0-1 59 2001 ch-UKR Women E15 Queen's Indian 20. B Shovunov vs A Zatonskih   ½-½ 79 2001 open C02 French, Advance 21. E Cosma vs A Zatonskih   ½-½ 73 2001 2nd ch-EUR Women E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 22. Li Ruofan vs A Zatonskih 0-1 12 2001 FIDE WCh Women KO C07 French, Tarrasch 23. A Zatonskih vs I Gaponenko   ½-½ 44 2001 ch-UKR Women B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 24. A Zatonskih vs S Tereladze   ½-½ 60 2001 open B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 25. A Zatonskih vs N Aginian   ½-½ 35 2001 2nd ch-EUR Women C03 French, Tarrasch  page 1 of 19; games 1-25 of 459    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Zatonskih wins | Zatonskih loses

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 5 OF 5 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-11-09    Wild Bill: Get well soon, Anna. Sep-15-09    HeMateMe: Anna must have duel USA/Russia citizenship? She has played for the USA women's Olympiad, and is playing here for Russia in team competition. Oct-11-09    Caissanist: Since she wasn't born in Russia, I wouldn't think that she was ever a Russian citizen. There don't seem to be any rules against representing a different country, so long as there are no objections from the federation you normally represent. Oct-13-09    Wild Bill: 8 1/2 out of nine!! Congratulations, Anna. Oct-13-09    Phoenix: Absolutely an outstanding score. Oct-13-09    Travis Bickle: Congratulations Anna Z!! 8.5/9 What an oustanding score!!! I used to play blitz with you on the old WCN. Do you remember? ; P Oct-14-09    Open Defence: <Travis> I never thought you were the Blitz and Tell type ;-p Oct-14-09    Travis Bickle: OD Anna was very friendly and used to chat with me for a few moments when i said hello. She was very personable! ; P Oct-14-09    laskersteinitz: OD, very clever word play there, hehehe! Oct-15-09    Winter: Anna the Great! Jun-23-10    GrahamClayton: Prior to the start of the 2009 US Women's Championship, Anna gave a 5 board simultaneous blindfold exhibition, finishing with a +5, =0, -0 score. This is believed to be the record for the most number of games played simultaneously blindfold by a female chess player in a scheduled and regulated exhibition. A report and video can be found at: http://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/... Jul-18-10    Remizatorul: Nice pics gallery here ... http://remizatorul.weebly.com/13/po... Jul-20-10    Tabanus: Placed 2nd in the US Women's Championship 9-20 July 2010: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Aug-08-10    HeMateMe: Anna Z finishes 26th at Main Rapid, highest among women (World champion A. Kosteniuk finishd 49th) with 8 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw. She finished around the middle of the field, not too bad. Nov-13-10    HeMateMe: anna is seeded 18th at the ladies world championship. GL Anna! No Irina Krush, unfortunately. C. Baginskaite is in the tournament for the USA; she is seeded No. 49. Apr-28-11    SetNoEscapeOn: Congrats to Anna on winning her fourth US women's championship. They really made her work for it this time. Apr-28-11    James Bowman: <Congrats to Anna on winning her fourth US women's championship. They really made her work for it this time.> She started way off form, I still thought if she made it to the semi finals that she would be the favorite and she didn't disappoint. In some ways this was her finest U.S. championship because she showed the dogged determination to press ahead when it looked all but over. Sorry for Irina she I'm sure is devastated for losing a won game. And Tatyana Abramov should be overjoyed for going the distance. Jul-17-11    Sho: Happy birthday Anna, I teach middle school and try to inspire kids towards chess. I think the girls can find some in you. Thanks. Jul-17-11    ketchuplover: Armageddon!!!!!!!!!!!! Jul-17-11    jakaiden: Happy Birthday to the most beautiful US Champion ever! Jul-17-11    HeMateMe: She is playing in that top flight women's tournament in China, alongside the mens team championships (with a nod to Judit Polgar, of course). Nov-24-11    PhilFeeley: Why don't they have the Swinkels-Zatonskih game here? Curacao, 2008 White: Swinkels, Robin Black: Zatonskih, Anna 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Bd3 Nxe4 7.Bxe4 Nf6 8.Bg5 h6 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.Qe2 c6 11.O-O Bd6 12.c4 O-O 13.Rad1 Rd8 14.Rfe1 Bd7 15.Bc2 Be8 16.a3 b6 17.b4 a5 18.c5 Bc7 19.Ne5 axb4 20.axb4 bxc5 21.bxc5 Qe7 22.Qe4 g6 23.Nxc6 Bxc6 24.Qxc6 Rac8 25.Qe4 Qf6 26.d5 exd5 27.Rxd5 Rxd5 28.Qxd5 Ba5 29.Rd1 Qc6 30.Bb3 Qxd5 31.Rxd5 Rd8 32.Re5 Kf8 33.g3 Bc3 34.Re4 Rd4 35.Re3 Bb4 36.Rf3 f5 37.c6 Ba5 38.Re3 Rd6 39.Ba4 Bc7 40.Kg2 Rd4 41.Bb5 Rd5 42.Ba4 Rd4 1/2-1/2 It was played underwater! http://main.uschess.org/content/vie... Jul-17-12    brankat: Happy Birthday Anna! Feb-10-13    Wyatt Gwyon: Daniel did really well for a...large man. May-04-13    waustad: Her husband is from Latvia but plays for Germany. She's from Ukraine but plays for the USA and plays in the championships often. She also plays for Baden Baden in the Frauenbundesliga and may be the only German resident to play for them this year. The German language WIKI http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Z... claims that she moved to Long Island in 2005. I wonder how many nationalities their daughter claims and what languages are spoken at home. Her parents would have Russian and German in common and probably English. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 5) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 5 OF 5 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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