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Chisinau Interzonal (Women) Tournament

Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant9.5/13(+8 -2 =3)[games]
Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska9/13(+5 -0 =8)[games]
Nana Ioseliani8.5/13(+4 -0 =9)[games]
Alisa Galliamova8.5/13(+6 -2 =5)[games]
Alisa Maric8.5/13(+5 -1 =7)[games]
Zhaoqin Peng8.5/13(+6 -2 =5)[games]
Vesna Misanovic8/13(+5 -2 =6)[games]
Nino Gurieli8/13(+4 -1 =8)[games]
Svetlana Matveeva8/13(+5 -2 =6)[games]
Natasa Bojkovic7.5/13(+4 -2 =7)[games]
Kanying Qin7.5/13(+5 -3 =5)[games]
Inna Gaponenko7.5/13(+5 -3 =5)[games]
Nino Khurtsidze7.5/13(+5 -3 =5)[games]
Elvira Berend7.5/13(+4 -2 =7)[games]
Petra Krupkova7.5/13(+5 -3 =5)[games]
Lidia Semenova7.5/13(+6 -4 =3)[games]
Cristina-Adela Foisor7/13(+3 -2 =8)[games]
Lei Wang7/13(+3 -2 =8)[games]
Chen Zhu7/13(+5 -4 =4)[games]
Almira Skripchenko7/13(+6 -5 =2)[games]
Thanh Trang Hoang7/13(+4 -3 =6)[games]
Tatiana Shumiakina7/13(+2 -1 =10)[games]
Miranda Khorava7/13(+6 -5 =2)[games]
Suzana Maksimovic7/13(+5 -4 =4)[games]
Xiaosha Lu6.5/13(+3 -3 =7)[games]
Anjelina Belakovskaia6.5/13(+3 -3 =7)[games]
Marina Sheremetieva6.5/13(+4 -4 =5)[games]
Antoaneta Stefanova6.5/13(+4 -4 =5)[games]
Elina Danielian6.5/13(+4 -4 =5)[games]
Natalia Edzgveradze6.5/13(+5 -5 =3)[games]
Natalia Zhukova6.5/13(+5 -5 =3)[games]
Ludmila Zaitseva6/13(+3 -4 =6)[games]
* (52 players total; 20 players not shown. Click here for longer list.)

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Chisinau Interzonal (Women) (1995)

"On Sunday, September 3, at 2 pm, the official opening of the competition took place. The President of the International Chess Federation (F.I.D.E.), Mr. Florencio Campomanes, was present at this occasion. The official opening was also honored by the presence of the President of the Republic of Moldova, Mr. Mircea Snegur. At 3 pm at the "House of Friendship", the first round of the interzonal tournament began." (Timișoara 1995-09-05, transl.)

"If men's chess is dominated by the former Soviet countries, centered on Russia, in women's chess, Georgia is the country that contributes the best players to the world elite. Although the Polgar sisters and current champion Jun Xie could be excluded from this category, in the last Interzonal Tournament, held in the Moldovan city of Kishinev, Georgian chess players once again occupied the top spots. The highest finisher was Ketevan Arakhamia, who defeated China's Zhu in the final round to claim the victory." (Jaque, transl.)

Republic Palace ("House of Friendship"), Chisinau, Moldova, 3-16 September 1995

Age Elo* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 1 Arakhamia 27 2420 +36 +44 +11 =02 +04 +07 -03 +09 =08 =05 +10 -06 +19 9½ 2 Kachiani 24 2360 +45 +43 +20 =01 +19 +04 =05 =11 =03 =10 =06 =08 =07 9 3 Ioseliani 33 2475 +33 =17 =07 +32 =08 =12 +01 +20 =02 =09 =04 =11 =06 8½ 4 Galliamova 23 2475 +16 +31 =19 +06 -01 -02 =26 +18 +11 =17 =03 =09 +08 8½ 5 Maric 25 2445 =38 =26 +47 =29 =18 +19 =02 =07 +12 =01 -08 +20 +11 8½ 6 Peng 27 2355 =15 +42 +39 -04 -17 +18 =25 +27 +21 =08 =02 +01 =03 8½ 7 Misanovic 30 2340 +24 +09 =03 =19 +20 -01 =08 =05 -10 +23 =17 +21 =02 8 8 Gurieli 33 2360 +27 =39 =18 +25 =03 =09 =07 +17 =01 =06 +05 =02 -04 8 9 Matveeva 26 2440 +13 -07 +40 =17 +33 =08 +12 -01 +20 =03 =11 =04 =15 8 10 Bojkovic 24 2425 =34 -18 +42 =23 =25 =13 +38 +29 +07 =02 -01 =15 =20 7½ (42 more players) ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

The 52 players had qualified from about 20 zonal tournaments. Swiss, 13 rounds in 14 days, starting on Sunday 3 September. Rest day (after Round 7): 10 September. "Puerto Rico" tiebreak criterion: sum of Elo ratings of opponents, minus the lowest Elo rating. Chief arbiter: Kira Zvorykina. Deputy arbiter: Maria Albulet-Pogorevici. The top seven players (Arakhamia, Kachiani, Ioseliani, Galliamova, Maric, Peng, and Misanovic on tiebreak) qualified for the Groningen Candidates (Women) (1997).

Sources
Wikipedia article: Chișinău
TWIC 53 (https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...)
OlimpBase (https://olimpbase.org/ind-wwcc/wwc1...)
Mark Weeks (https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/95...)
Wikipedia article: Women's World Chess Championship 1999
Jaque 415, pp. 44-46 (https://www.olimpbase.org/leagueES/...)
*FIDE rating list July 1995 (https://web.archive.org/web/2022112...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 8/1995, p. 419 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1995...)
Timișoara, 5 September 1995, p. 11 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Tim...)
Timișoara, 19 September 1995, p. 11 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Tim...)
Timișoara, 20 September 1995, p. 11 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Tim...)
Timișoara, 30 November 1995, p. 11 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Tim...)
Other Timișoara issues (available at https://adt.arcanum.com/en/search/)

 page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 105  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. L Wang vs A Stefanova  ½-½411995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
2. I Kryukova vs A Maric  ½-½291995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)C48 Four Knights
3. P Krupkova vs Z Peng  ½-½351995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A69 Benoni, Four Pawns Attack, Main line
4. M Lomineishvili vs N Bojkovic  ½-½381995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E48 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5
5. Z Nikolin vs L Zaitseva  ½-½441995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)C12 French, McCutcheon
6. A Belakovskaia vs Lin Ye  ½-½611995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E17 Queen's Indian
7. A Stefanova vs M Lomineishvili  ½-½311995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)D02 Queen's Pawn Game
8. C Foisor vs N Ioseliani  ½-½201995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E18 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3
9. A Maric vs A Belakovskaia  ½-½191995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A15 English
10. N Gurieli vs M Calzetta  ½-½411995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A39 English, Symmetrical, Main line with d4
11. X Lu vs I Gaponenko  ½-½391995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)B21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
12. M Sheremetieva vs E Berend  ½-½221995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
13. N Straub vs T T Hoang  ½-½861995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A81 Dutch
14. D Ciuksyte vs L Semenova  ½-½421995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)C10 French
15. C Zhu vs A Galliamova  ½-½611995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
16. N Ioseliani vs V Misanovic  ½-½411995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A10 English
17. L Wang vs N Gurieli  ½-½501995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E90 King's Indian
18. I Gaponenko vs C Foisor  ½-½221995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)C10 French
19. X Lu vs L Zaitseva  ½-½501995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)C00 French Defense
20. S Maksimovic vs N Edzgveradze  ½-½411995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
21. A Belakovskaia vs M Tsiganova  ½-½461995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A13 English
22. T Shumiakina vs N Janjghava  ½-½631995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E66 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav Panno
23. A Maric vs E Danielian  ½-½331995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A53 Old Indian
24. K Kachiani-Gersinska vs K Arakhamia-Grant  ½-½391995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E73 King's Indian
25. C Foisor vs S Matveeva  ½-½561995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A00 Uncommon Opening
 page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 105  PGN Download
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