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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 11; games 1-25 of 269  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. L Semenova vs A Galliamova  0-1611995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A48 King's Indian
2. L Wang vs A Stefanova  ½-½411995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
3. T Lematschko vs C Moshina  1-081995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A60 Benoni Defense
4. E Danielian vs T Ratcu  0-1381995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A46 Queen's Pawn Game
5. K Arakhamia-Grant vs M Tsiganova  1-0681995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
6. K Kachiani-Gersinska vs S Petrenko  1-0291995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)D82 Grunfeld, 4.Bf4
7. N Ioseliani vs M Socko  1-0131995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
8. I Kryukova vs A Maric  ½-½291995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)C48 Four Knights
9. S Matveeva vs N Khurtsidze  1-0421995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)D62 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
10. S Maksimovic vs V Misanovic  0-1541995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E00 Queen's Pawn Game
11. M Sheremetieva vs N Gurieli  0-1461995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)B06 Robatsch
12. I Gaponenko vs N Straub  1-0461995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)C14 French, Classical
13. P Krupkova vs Z Peng  ½-½351995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A69 Benoni, Four Pawns Attack, Main line
14. M Lomineishvili vs N Bojkovic  ½-½381995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E48 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5
15. M Khorava vs K Qin  0-1491995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A15 English
16. Z Nikolin vs L Zaitseva  ½-½441995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)C12 French, McCutcheon
17. N Zhukova vs D Ciuksyte  1-0391995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted
18. S Burtman vs N Edzgveradze  0-1371995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E00 Queen's Pawn Game
19. A Belakovskaia vs Lin Ye  ½-½611995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E17 Queen's Indian
20. E Berend vs M Calzetta  0-1651995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)B27 Sicilian
21. T T Hoang vs X Lu  0-1441995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A80 Dutch
22. C Zhu vs N Janjghava  1-0581995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A48 King's Indian
23. I Berezina vs C Foisor  0-1411995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)E90 King's Indian
24. J Paasikangas vs A Skripchenko  0-1311995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A45 Queen's Pawn Game
25. T Shumiakina vs B Thipsay  1-0401995Chisinau Interzonal (Women)A84 Dutch
 page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 269  PGN Download
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