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Natalia Zhukova
N Zhukova 
Photo courtesy of Eric Schiller.  

Number of games in database: 1,329
Years covered: 1994 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2306 (2244 rapid, 2289 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2499
Overall record: +350 -223 =417 (56.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 339 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Queen's Gambit Declined (82) 
    D38 D35 D31 D30 D37
 King's Indian (64) 
    E80 E94 E76 E60 E90
 Slav (55) 
    D17 D15 D12 D10 D11
 English, 1 c4 e5 (50) 
    A29 A28 A27 A21 A22
 Queen's Pawn Game (49) 
    A46 A41 A40 D02 E10
 English (44) 
    A10 A18 A13 A17 A15
With the Black pieces:
 French Defense (140) 
    C03 C11 C02 C00 C01
 Queen's Pawn Game (70) 
    D02 A46 A40 A45 E10
 Ruy Lopez (59) 
    C78 C65 C70 C67 C77
 French (46) 
    C11 C00 C12 C10
 Slav (45) 
    D10 D11 D15 D12 D17
 Modern Benoni (44) 
    A58 A57 A70 A62 A64
Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Novkovic vs N Zhukova, 2013 0-1
   N Zhukova vs C Peptan, 2008 1-0
   N Batsiashvili vs N Zhukova, 2015 0-1
   T Molchanova vs N Zhukova, 2009 0-1
   N Zhukova vs T Shadrina, 2001 1-0
   N Zhukova vs A Sharevich, 2004 1-0
   A Muzychuk vs N Zhukova, 2002 0-1
   N Zhukova vs W Ju, 2012 1/2-1/2
   N Zhukova vs D Shengelia, 2001 1-0
   N Zhukova vs P Cramling, 2015 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   European Championship (Women) (2000)
   European Championship (Women) (2015)
   Corus Group C (2005)
   European Championship (Women) (2004)
   European Team Championship (Women) (2003)
   European Championship (Women) (2008)
   European Championship (Women) (2014)
   European Championship (Women) (2010)
   Batumi Open (2001)
   European Championship (Women) (2003)
   Gibraltar Masters (2006)
   Gibraltar Masters (2014)
   European Championship (Women) (2011)
   Turin Olympiad (Women) (2006)
   Dresden Olympiad (Women) (2008)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Corus Group C 2005 by Tabanus
   2005 Corus (group C) by gauer

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 European Championship (Women)
   N Zhukova vs E Danielian (Apr-11-25) 1/2-1/2
   N Zhukova vs N Abdinova (Apr-10-25) 1-0
   T Rodshtein vs N Zhukova (Apr-09-25) 0-1
   N Zhukova vs A Zherebtsova (Apr-08-25) 1/2-1/2
   M Sandu vs N Zhukova (Apr-07-25) 1/2-1/2

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NATALIA ZHUKOVA
(born Jun-05-1979, 45 years old) Ukraine
PRONUNCIATION:
[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


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 page 1 of 54; games 1-25 of 1,332  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. S Beshukov vs N Zhukova  ½-½501994St Petersburg op2B01 Scandinavian
2. N Zhukova vs A Zatonskih  1-0401994Wch U16 GirlsA40 Queen's Pawn Game
3. D Zoler vs N Zhukova  1-0611994Groningen OpenD33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
4. N Zhukova vs P Kindl  0-1501994Groningen OpenA48 King's Indian
5. M de Jong vs N Zhukova  1-0471994Groningen OpenB05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
6. N Zhukova vs L Agergaard  1-0251994Groningen OpenD46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
7. R Fontaine vs N Zhukova  0-1341994Groningen OpenB07 Pirc
8. N Zhukova vs V Arbakov  1-0601994Groningen OpenA48 King's Indian
9. L Pliester vs N Zhukova  ½-½371994Groningen OpenA07 King's Indian Attack
10. N Zhukova vs W Zagema  0-1401994Groningen OpenD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
11. T Grabuzova vs N Zhukova  1-0401994Groningen OpenD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
12. N Zhukova vs I Gaponenko  ½-½121994Groningen OpenB01 Scandinavian
13. C Blaauw vs N Zhukova  1-0381994Groningen OpenD00 Queen's Pawn Game
14. S Petrenko vs N Zhukova  0-1451995Interzonal (Women)B02 Alekhine's Defense
15. N Zhukova vs S Beshukov  0-1491995Berliner SommerA43 Old Benoni
16. A Galliamova vs N Zhukova  1-0431995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System
17. N Zhukova vs A Finkel  0-1351995Groningen OpenA48 King's Indian
18. N Zhukova vs J Pomes Marcet  0-1401995Groningen OpenD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
19. V Malakhatko vs N Zhukova  ½-½371996Yalta opD34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
20. N Zhukova vs M Litynska  1-0751996UKR-ch (Women)A43 Old Benoni
21. L Wang vs N Zhukova 1-0251996Yerevan Olympiad (Women)B01 Scandinavian
22. N Zhukova vs R Sheldon  1-0241996Yerevan Olympiad (Women)A48 King's Indian
23. N Gurieli vs N Zhukova  0-1851996Yerevan Olympiad (Women)B01 Scandinavian
24. S Prudnikova vs N Zhukova  ½-½641996Yerevan Olympiad (Women)E44 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation, 5.Ne2
25. N Zhukova vs A Stefanova  ½-½241998Belgrade (Women)D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
 page 1 of 54; games 1-25 of 1,332  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
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May-31-15  gazzawhite: What a disgrace.
Jun-03-15  ex0duz: Disgraceful behaviour. I feel sorry for Grischuk.. at least he takes his losses like a man, and doesn't just throw around unfounded accusations without ANY proof whatsoever. The only reason it was taken seriously by the tournament director was because she managed to get 14 other players(most likely her friends) to sign..

Disgraceful behaviour/conduct like the above post said. You'd think well known chess players would know better, but apparently not. Their ego's n @#$% is off the charts too.. same as Mamedyarov with his accusation after a loss.. But at least he didn't drag 14 other people into it, who have also had their names tarnished now as a result.

But yeah. If there's one thing i took from this, it's those 15 names(and on the flipside, the others who DIDN'T sign are also on my radar now as being coolheaded and not dumb/easily manipulated(and/or not friends with Zhukova at least). I know who to look at with derision/suspicion in future now.

And finally. If Zhukova wants to use the fact that after the broadcast delay was put in, and Sandu started losing after that, so if that is proof that Sandu cheated, then Zhukova winning after lodging the 'protest' is proof that it was an orchestrated psychological attack in order to put the winner off her game. And that is why i am annoyed, because i hate to see cheats or unsportsmanlike conduct be rewarded, along with seeing someone being ganged up on.. REAL courageous. B-Please. GTFO-Here..

Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Do she and Gris have any kids?
Jun-03-15  SimonWebbsTiger: @<HMM>

Do you ever bother to google? It's annoying when there are easily verifiable facts ppl with an IQ can research/find and then proper questions, asking a chess website's members for their opinions for opinions.

PPl who follow chess know full well Grischuk and Zhukova are parents. http://chessintranslation.com/wp-co...

Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: Hey! She <can> smile. And walk on water, it looks like.
Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <Natalia Zhukova responded to the "loss" of Kateryna Lagno: "Getting rid of parasites is a painless process">

When Edward I handed over control of Scotland to a vassal, he's reputed to have remarked, <A man does good business, when he rids himself of a turd.>

Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: <MissScarlett> What if you used your powers for niceness, instead of evil?
Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: I don't think in those terms. Maybe I should follow the lead of <Bertrand Russell> and write an essay, <Why I Am Not a Liberal>.

Meanwhile, there are 40 new Capablanca games in the DB:

Capablanca vs Charles B Isaacson, 1915

Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: <Do you ever bother to google?>

Only when I feel like it, and it is not for a moron like you to tell other people here what to do.

Jun-03-15  Nina Myers: Ask your mom.
Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: <MissScarlett> thanks, looks like a great game.
Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: <Nina Myers: > Ask *your* mother.
Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: For all that, she could have <my> child.
Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Perf owns stock in Hooters, along with John Daly and Tiger Woods.
Jun-03-15  tappingfoot: What a shame.
Jun-03-15  SimonWebbsTiger: @<HMM>

if you are too lazy to google, just tell.

We don't exist as some news bureau to provide a lazy person with info he could easily find using his computer. Why would you think so?

Jun-04-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Dude, you're not responsible for anyone on the internet. Not everyone marches to the same drummer you do. Grow up, shut up, and try to measure up.
Jun-05-15  ChessVip: Zhukova speaks: http://chess-news.ru/en/node/19190?
Jun-05-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Hard-faced cow.
Jul-02-15  fisayo123: If Zhukova had any integrity, she should have reached out to Sandu by now to apologize for that. Totally unacceptable behaviour.
Mar-21-16  sfm: Cheater. Disgraceful. Unworthy.
Jan-28-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: nice photo

<http://en.chessbase.com/portals/all...>

she could really be attractive if she worked on smiling a bit.

Mar-13-17  The Kings Domain: Attractive but angry gal.
May-08-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: 3 month chess ban suspended for 1 year if she does not make any unfounded allegations during that time
May-08-17  alexapple: Zhukova, pride and prejudice. I totally support FIDE's decision!
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