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| Oct-10-07 |
| samsal27: <alexmagnus> I think that it could be a combination of both factors you mentioned. |
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Oct-10-07
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| norami: Miss Lahno is rated no higher than she was four years ago, but I noticed Koneru Humpy also went four years as a teenager without rating improvement. Maybe there's something about teenage girls. |
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| Oct-14-07 |
| samsal27: <norami> If Katya's last performance is any indication, her rating will soon start to rise. She was 4.5/7 in the Club Championship with a performance rating of 2556. |
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Nov-01-07
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| alexmagnus: Her performance after 5 rounds in ETCC is 2460 with a strange result list - one win and four draws... |
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Nov-04-07
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| alexmagnus: Fifth draw in a row yesterday... |
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Nov-04-07
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| alexmagnus: And one more draw... |
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Nov-05-07
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| alexmagnus: How long can it go??? Skripchenko-Lahno:
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.Bb3 a6 7.Nbd2 0-0 8.Nf1 1/2-1/2. What happened with Katy? Not only that it is her seventh draw in a row - it's a quick draw - not often I saw this "phenomenon" in her games... |
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Nov-05-07
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| alexmagnus: Not only that - it seems to be the only game with one-digit number of moves in her career. |
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| Nov-05-07 |
| Phoenix: I think it is team tactics, and that it has probably been decided by the coach. I've noticed that when you have a strong women's team, if you can secure a draw with the other team's highest rated player, you should be the heavy favorites on the other boards. Unfortunetly for Ukraine, they've had some troubles on boards 3 & 4. This doesn't happen just with women's teams either- take, for example, the Olympiad: often if you have a team like Russia, avr 2700 on all boards, playing a team like England, who has Adams 2700 and Short 2600 and two 2500s, you'll typically see fast draws on the top 2 boards and an easy sweep on the bottom two boards. This kind of thing makes team events a bit unattractive. |
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Nov-05-07
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| alexmagnus: Yes, but SEVEN draws in a row.... |
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| Nov-05-07 |
| samsal27: <alexmagnus> Perhaps Katya is tired and just wants to rest awhile? |
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| Nov-06-07 |
| Phoenix: Or maybe the quick draw was to rest up for a potential game with Russia. If so, it worked. |
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Nov-06-07
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| alexmagnus: In the final round she won against Kosteniuk, my prayers were answered :)) |
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Feb-07-08
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| alexmagnus: Katy in Moscow: now 4/5 (3 wins, 2 draws). |
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Feb-07-08
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| alexmagnus: After 18 moves. Kovanova-Lahno looks very drawish... I hope there is still some hidden trick there:) |
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Feb-07-08
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| alexmagnus: Kovanova-Lahno
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Be3 c6 5. Qd2 Nbd7 6. Nf3 Bg7 7. h3 Qa5 8. Bd3 e5 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. 0-0 0-0 11. Nd5 Qd8 12. Nxf6+ Nxf6 13. Nxe5 Nxe4 14. Bxe4 Qxd2 15. Bxd2 Bxe5 16. c3 Be6 17. Be3 Rfd8 18. Rfd1 f5 19. Bf3 Kf7 20. Bg5 Bf6 21. Be3 g5 22. g3 Kg6 23. Re1 Bf7 24. Bd1 Bd5 25. f3 Kf7 26. Bb3 Bxb3 27. axb3 Rd3 28. f4 g4 29. hxg4 fxg4 30. Kf2 a6 31. Rh1 Re8 32. Rae1 Kg6 33. Bc1 Rxe1 34. Rxe1 h5 35. Rh1 h4 36. gxf4 Rf3+ 37. Kg2 Kh5 38. Bd2 Rd3 0-1 (guess the score is incomplete, don't see anything here...). Anyway, Kateryna has 5/6 now. |
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Feb-08-08
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| alexmagnus: Today Kateryna lost.The final position if of course lost, but I'd play a couple of moves to see -I saw already many good players not managing a Q vs R win in 50 moves. The position Kateryna resigned in was a mate in 25... 
click for larger view |
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Feb-10-08
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| paulalbert: She finished well at Moscow, but this loss prevented her from having a shot at the top with her former colleague Anna Muzychuk ( now playing for Slovenia ) on a real roll for this tournament. Anna Ushenina also seems to be pulling slightly ahead of Lahno as the top Ukrainian woman player. Paul Albert |
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Feb-10-08
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| alexmagnus: What happened in the final round?
[Event "Moscow Open 2008"]
[Site "Moscow, Russia"]
[Date "2008.02.10"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Lahno Katerina"]
[Black "Tairova Elena"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C01"]
[PlyCount "36"]
[EventDate "2008.??.??"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. exd5 exd5 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. a3 Be7 7. Nge2 Bf6 8.
Nf4 Nge7 9. Qh5 Bxd4 10. Nfxd5 Ne5 11. Be4 Ng4 12. O-O c6 13. Ne3 g6 14. Qh4
Bf6 15. Qg3 h5 16. Rd1 Bd7 17. Nc4 b5 18. Nd6+ Kf8 White wins 1-0 1-0 Well, black's position is messy but is it really resignable? This looks to be the most mysterious win to come into my "Lahno's winning miniatures" collection:) |
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Feb-10-08
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| paulalbert: As I mentioned at another game, the official site continuously got stuck in the middle of the games, so don't put it into the miniatures until you can see the real score! Paul Albert |
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| May-01-08 |
| Ichiro: She is a sole leader in EICC after 10R. Will she be European Champion again? |
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| May-02-08 |
| Phoenix: And she is, congratulations to her!
Also, she made me 1,134 chessbucks richer ;-) |
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| May-02-08 |
| hitman84: She looks a bit like the famous Ukrainian singer Anna Sedokova. |
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May-04-08
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| alexmagnus: A bit late, but yeah, congratulations to Katy! I had no time to follow it because of my own tournament... |
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| May-06-08 |
| stanleys: Congratulations,Katia!
Some pictures of her: http://images.yandex.ru/yandsearch?... |
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