WFM (2001), WIM (2002), WGM (2004), IM (2007) and GM (2011). She has represented Slovenia on board 1 in every women's Olympiad since 2004.Born in L'viv, Ukraine, Anna took an early liking to chess, leading her to become the under-8 European champion in 1996. She has competed in and won numerous age-based championship tournaments for girls in the Ukraine, Europe and the World, her most notable successes occurring in 2003, when she was the winner of Women's Ukrainian Championship, in 2004 when won the Championship of Ukraine (U20 Girls) and was runner up in the Girls U14 World Championship, and in 2005 when she won the World U16 (Girls) World Championship. She competed in the Women's World Championship (2008) in Nalchik where she reached the second round before bowing out to Dronavalli Harika. She also competed in the Women's World Chess Championship (2010) and made it to the third round, but was eliminated from the tournament by Ju Wenjun.
In 2004 she became a citizen of Slovenia, where she is the strongest Slovenian female player. Anna won her first GM norm at the 2008 European Club Cup, winning the gold medal on board 1 for her team T-Com Podgorica. Also in 2008 she won the Moscow Open C-ladies tournament with 8.0/9 and came equal first with 7/9 in the 1st Scandinavian International Ladies Open held in Stockholm. In 2009 she came equal second in the Snezenky a Machri - Czech Coal Chess Match and won her 2nd GM norm at the Inventi Chess Tournament (2009) held in Antwerp. In 2010 she won the Maia Chiburdanidze Cup in Georgia with 8.0/9, played in the Corus (B Group) (2010), finishing with a score of 5,5/13 and a performance of 2583, won the World Junior Championship (Girls) (2010) with 11/13 and scored 7/10 on first board for Slovenia at the Chess Olympiad (Women) (2010). She secured her 3rd GM norm at the Shenzhen Women's Grand Prix (2011) when she came 2nd with 7/11 (+3 -0 =8) behind Yifan Hou and soon after her 8.5/9 as Slovenia's top board at the European Team Championship (Women) (2011) secured her the event's highest rating performance, 2782, and her fourth GM norm*.
She started 2012 with a solid 6.5/10 at the Tradewise Gibraltar (2012), following up with =1st (3rd on tiebreak) at the European Individual Women's Championship (2012) and =1st (2nd on tiebreak) at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Kazan (2012). She came 3rd in the 2011-12 Women's Grand Prix series behind Yifan Hou and Koneru Humpy. Then came her shock elimination from the 2nd round of the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012) by the eventual winner and now 2012 Women's World Champion, Anna Ushenina. She started 2013 with a solid 7/10 at Tradewise Gibraltar (2013).
Anna's sister, Mariya Muzychuk, is also a strong player.
Myzychuk's rating as of 1 May 2013 was 2585 and she is the top female player in Slovenia, the 3rd ranked player overall in Slovenia, and the 4th ranked woman in the world behind Judit Polgar, Yifan Hou and Koneru Humpy. In the August 2012 rating list, she recorded a career high rating of 2606, only the fourth female player to rate over 2600, briefly ranking as number 2 woman in the world. Rapid rating 2566 (women's world #7) and rapid rating 2639 (women's world #1).
Live rating (women's): http://www.2700chess.com/women * http://ratings.fide.com/title_appli...
Wikipedia article: Anna Muzychuk
