Photo © Farid Khayrulin; courtesy of Zahir Ahmadov.

Monika Socko
Number of games in database: 487
Years covered: 1992 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2452
Highest rating achieved in database: 2505
Overall record: +141 -88 =137 (57.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      121 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (36)      B40 B51 B30 B33 B31  Nimzo Indian (23)      E32 E46 E42 E39 E48  Slav (23)      D10 D11 D12 D18 D15  King's Indian (18)      E70 E92 E76 E91 E98  Ruy Lopez (16)      C69 C68 C67 C65 C64  Queen's Gambit Declined (15)      D31 D37 D38 D35 D30	With the Black pieces:  French Defense (64)      C05 C18 C06 C01 C15  French Tarrasch (30)      C05 C06 C07 C03  Queen's Pawn Game (26)      A45 A46 E10 E00 A40  Sicilian (24)      B30 B32 B22 B35 B23  King's Indian (21)      E63 E62 E98 E90 E97  Nimzo Indian (17)      E32 E46 E47 E30 E39

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Yifan Hou vs M Socko, 2012 0-1
   M Socko vs M Dziuba, 2008 1/2-1/2
   Yifan Hou vs M Socko, 2012 0-1
   O Zimina vs M Socko, 2010 1/2-1/2

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MONIKA SOCKO (born Mar-24-1978) Poland [what is this?] WGM (1995); Grandmaster ((2008). Socko won the Polish Women's Championship in 1995, 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2013. She qualified for the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012) and defeated French IM Almira Skripchenko and Women's World Champion GM Yifan Hou in the first two rounds before being eliminated in round three by former Women's World Champion, Bulgarian GM Antoaneta Stefanova. Monika Socko is married to Bartosz Socko who won the Polish Championship in 2008 and 2013 for the couple to share a unique pair of "doubles". Wikipedia article: Monika So%C4%87ko

page 1 of 20; games 1-25 of 487  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Brodsky vs M Socko   1-0 34 1992 Karvina op C06 French, Tarrasch 2. Kholmov vs M Socko   1-0 22 1992 Wisla BES op C05 French, Tarrasch 3. M Fierro vs M Socko   1-0 75 1993 Wch U16 Girls C01 French, Exchange 4. M Socko vs Kholmov   ½-½ 53 1993 Warsaw op A46 Queen's Pawn Game 5. Oral vs M Socko   1-0 36 1994 Cappelle op 10th C06 French, Tarrasch 6. M Litinskaya-Shul vs M Socko   ½-½ 21 1996 Warsaw op (Women) E68 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Variation, 8.e4 7. M Litinskaya-Shul vs M Socko   ½-½ 48 1997 POL-chT E71 King's Indian, Makagonov System (5.h3) 8. Movsesian vs M Socko   1-0 35 1998 MK Cafe Cup-A C02 French, Advance 9. Xie Jun vs M Socko   1-0 35 1998 Elista ol (Women) C06 French, Tarrasch 10. M Socko vs Chiburdanidze 0-1 22 1998 Elista ol (Women) E15 Queen's Indian 11. Z Peng vs M Socko   1-0 32 1998 EUCup 3rd (Women) A52 Budapest Gambit 12. M Socko vs J Stocek   ½-½ 31 1999 Passau op 7th A47 Queen's Indian 13. M Socko vs A Galliamova   0-1 61 2000 Women's Olympiad D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted 14. M Socko vs S Petrenko   ½-½ 64 2001 EuTChw D87 Grunfeld, Exchange 15. M Socko vs E Kovalevskaya   0-1 60 2001 2nd ch-EUR Women A53 Old Indian 16. M Socko vs B Kadziolka 1-0 18 2001 ch-POL w A85 Dutch, with c4 & Nc3 17. I Rogers vs M Socko   1-0 68 2001 9th Aosta Valley E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack 18. M Krupa vs M Socko   ½-½ 58 2001 TCh-POL C05 French, Tarrasch 19. M Socko vs A Zatonskih   1-0 35 2001 EuTChw E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 20. M Socko vs Khurtsidze   0-1 37 2001 2nd ch-EUR Women E38 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5 21. M Socko vs B Grabarska   ½-½ 52 2001 ch-POL w D87 Grunfeld, Exchange 22. E Paehtz vs M Socko   0-1 45 2001 EuTChw C01 French, Exchange 23. M Socko vs B Kharashkina   1-0 35 2001 2nd ch-EUR Women D50 Queen's Gambit Declined 24. K Toma vs M Socko   0-1 47 2001 ch-POL w C15 French, Winawer 25. M Socko vs M Medic   1-0 86 2001 2nd ch-EUR Women E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation  page 1 of 20; games 1-25 of 487    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Socko wins | Socko loses

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-20-04    HailM0rphy: Whooops sorry forgot about vischer ;) Dont get much better then this Game Collection: Players With Funny Names Jun-15-05    WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles from Monika's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/sock.html Dec-24-06    BIDMONFA: Monika Socko SOCKO, Monika http://www.bidmonfa.com/socko_monik... _ Sep-18-07    Maroczy: Congratulations to Monika for winning the women's tournament in Baku. Sep-18-07    ahmadov: Congratulations! She really did a good job in Baku... Sep-18-07    alexapple: Socko got a GM norm!! congratulations! Sep-18-07    Mameluk: Congratulations to Ahmadov for his photo report at chessbase! Very fine that Socko won. She looks so much suffering at every photo. Probably naughty children. Sep-19-07    ahmadov: <Mameluk: Congratulations to Ahmadov for his photo report at chessbase!> Thanks a lot <Mameluk>! Feb-22-08    wolfmaster: She socked everybody at Baku. Feb-24-08    Bratek: Congratulations on winning Polish womens championship 2008. <Mameluk:She looks so much suffering at every photo.Probably naughty children.>Monika has 3 children.Its certainly difficult for her especially as her husband is also a professional chessplayer! Feb-24-08    slomarko: and she went undefeated too +7 -0 =4 Feb-26-08    whiteshark: Mistrzyni Polski Kobiet w szachach 2008! Congratulations on winning Polish womens championship 2008! (+7 =4) http://www.mp-kobiet.net/grafika/wi... Tournament page: http://www.mp-kobiet.net/index.php May-18-08    kwi: She got another GM norm at Kaupthing Open. http://www.lecavalier.lu/K8-A-S9_el... Nov-17-08    whiteshark: Monika Socko @ Dresden 2008: http://chessbase.de/2008/dresdenoly... Dec-05-08    whiteshark: Grandmaster title (men) approved to her at the 79th FIDE Congress which was held 16-26 November 2008 in Dresden, Germany. Congratulations! Jul-23-09    BoardLord: GM Monika Socko will participate in Arctic Chess Challenge 2009 in Tromsų, Norway which starts 1st of August. In connection with this I have written a profile of her that you can read at my blog Sjakkfantomet. It's in English: http://sjakkfantomet.blogg.no/12483... Aug-10-09    slomarko: congratulations to Monika for winning the Arctic Chess Challenge! Aug-15-09    whiteshark: Congratulations on winning the <Arctic Chess Challenge 2009> :D * http://arcticchess.org/2009/ * (a tournament missed here) Aug-16-09    Open Defence: I see she likes to play the French Defence Aug-21-09    whiteshark: Monika, the exclusive interview: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp... Nov-03-09    Raisin Death Ray: Socko it to me! Mar-24-10    Birthday Boy: Happy Birthday!!!Monika Socko!!! Mar-24-12    brankat: Happy Birthday Monika! Mar-24-12    Penguincw: Happy Birthday Socko! Apr-23-13    waustad: Both Monika and her husband won the Polish championships this year: http://de.chessbase.com/Home/TabId/... < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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