Currently 16 years old.
won WWC U10 1998 with 9,5/11 and made second place in 1999 (with 9,5/11 tied for first place)

learned how to play chess at the age of 4 and won russian championship of girls u8 at the age of 7.

Skriptchenko made sixth place only.

Interview with IM Ilya Odessky. Some excerpts:

<I am interested in women's chess from the position of fairness, not strength – just as well as in women. If a woman comes to a door and opens it with her heavy shoulder, I am not interested in her. A woman should just stay exhaling fragrance and wait for me to open this door.>

<And what about women's events? Everything is clear. And if not, then it is most likely their problem, not yours. If a girl did not play 'your' move, she made a mistake, not you – and if you finally turn an engine on, it will confirm that you were right. I have to tell you that this is a rare pleasure you don't get elsewhere, following any other kind of sport.>

<As for my personal preferences, I give them all to Vera Nebolsina. There are several reasons for it. First, Vera is a vegetarian, a stubborn one. The girl does not eat fish and meet for ideological reasons – one can go crazy about it! Do as you wish, and I consider it a true feat.

Second, she wakes up at 7, sometimes even at 5. If I wake up before noon, it means I didn't sleep well and the day is spoiled. Vera rises at cock-crow, does morning exercises, takes a hardening shower (in my opinion, the Gestapo torture) – brr! She is a hero twice.

http://www.chessib.com/intveraneb.h...