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Kateryna Lagno
Lagno 
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons  
Number of games in database: 1,683
Years covered: 1997 to 2021
Last FIDE rating: 2546 (2521 rapid, 2608 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2557

Overall record: +392 -207 =472 (58.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 612 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (274) 
    B90 B92 B32 B30 B33
 Ruy Lopez (104) 
    C78 C67 C77 C65 C92
 French Defense (80) 
    C02 C01 C18 C11 C03
 Caro-Kann (78) 
    B12 B18 B10 B11 B15
 Sicilian Najdorf (46) 
    B90 B92 B96 B91 B97
 Sicilian Taimanov (30) 
    B47 B46 B48 B45 B49
With the Black pieces:
 Grunfeld (134) 
    D85 D80 D90 D82 D76
 King's Indian (80) 
    E60 E94 E81 E97 E63
 Ruy Lopez (79) 
    C78 C65 C60 C67 C69
 Pirc (66) 
    B07 B09 B08
 Sicilian (63) 
    B84 B90 B52 B51 B47
 Queen's Pawn Game (50) 
    A45 A46 A41 D02 E10
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Cmilyte vs Lagno, 2012 1/2-1/2
   Lagno vs M Etmans, 2004 1-0
   Lagno vs A Jakubowska, 2001 1-0
   Lagno vs N Malmdin, 2007 1-0
   Lagno vs M Mueller-Seps, 2004 1-0
   B Khotenashvili vs Lagno, 2014 0-1
   Lagno vs M Krupa, 2009 1-0
   Lagno vs D Basekin, 2002 1-0
   Lagno vs A Jakubiec, 2005 1-0
   Lagno vs O Kulicov, 2003 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   North Urals Cup (2006)
   EU-ch U14 Girls (2001)
   European Championship (Women) (2008)
   Lahno - Negi Match (2006)
   European Championship (Women) (2005)
   European Club Cup (Women) (2009)
   FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial (Women) (2020)
   FIDE Women's Grand Prix (2011)
   Tata Steel Group C (2011)
   European Team Championship (Women) (2013)
   Calvia Olympiad (Women) (2004)
   Chinese Chess League (2017)
   European Championship (Women) (2013)
   Turin Olympiad (Women) (2006)
   Istanbul Olympiad (Women) (2012)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Lahno's winning miniatures by alexmagnus
   Lahno's Winning Minis Compiled by alexmagnus by fredthebear
   2004 Wijk Aan Zee (group C) by gauer
   Lahno! by larrewl
   B90 Sicilian Defense by osmanseza

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 FIDE Women's Grand Prix
   Lagno vs B Assaubayeva (May-27-23) 1/2-1/2
   O Kiolbasa vs Lagno (May-26-23) 1/2-1/2
   Lagno vs Kosteniuk (May-25-23) 1/2-1/2
   N Dzagnidze vs Lagno (May-24-23) 1/2-1/2
   Lagno vs D Wagner (May-23-23) 0-1

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KATERYNA LAGNO
(born Dec-27-1989, 33 years old) Ukraine (federation/nationality Russia)
PRONUNCIATION:
[what is this?]

Ekaterina Alexandrovna Lagno (Kateryna Olexandrivna Lahno in Ukrainian) was born on December 27, 1989 in Ukraine. In 2002 she became, at the age of twelve years, four months and two days, the youngest Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in chess history. In 2007 she became the eleventh woman to be awarded the Grandmaster title.

In 2003 she won a round-robin in Kramatorsk with a performance rating of 2622, finishing a full point ahead of a field that included three grandmasters. In 2005 she became European Women's Champion after winning a tie-break match with Nadezhda Kosintseva and repeated this success in 2008. She qualified for the Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2012) and defeated Khaled Mona in the first round, only to fall to Georgian IM and WGM Lela Javakhishvili in the second round, thereby exiting the title contest.

In 2009 she married French GM Robert Fontaine.

Live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/women

Wikipedia article: Kateryna Lahno

Last updated: 2019-02-27 11:34:47

 page 1 of 72; games 1-25 of 1,781  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. J Zawadzka vs Lagno  0-1461997Wch U10 GirlsC42 Petrov Defense
2. Lagno vs A Muzychuk  ½-½661997Wch U10 GirlsB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
3. J Xing vs Lagno 1-0471998Wch U10 GirlsA07 King's Indian Attack
4. Lagno vs T Abrahamyan  1-0471998Wch U10 GirlsC01 French, Exchange
5. E Ambrosi vs Lagno  ½-½371998Wch U10 GirlsC47 Four Knights
6. B Atnilov vs Lagno 0-1291998Wch U10 GirlsC49 Four Knights
7. Lagno vs M Herrera  1-0311998Wch U10 GirlsC54 Giuoco Piano
8. Lagno vs Z Cibickova  1-0341998Wch U10 GirlsC53 Giuoco Piano
9. I Lacau-Rodean vs Lagno 0-1581998Wch U10 GirlsC42 Petrov Defense
10. V Nebolsina vs Lagno  ½-½251998Wch U10 GirlsC46 Three Knights
11. Lagno vs S Vassilkova  0-1451998Wch U10 GirlsB83 Sicilian
12. A Bacionyte vs Lagno 0-1281998Wch U10 GirlsC47 Four Knights
13. Lagno vs Solene Algaba  1-0291998Wch U10 GirlsB58 Sicilian
14. A Muzychuk vs Lagno  ½-½681999UKR-ch U12 GirlsC42 Petrov Defense
15. E Tairova vs Lagno 0-1331999Wch U10 GirlsC42 Petrov Defense
16. Sun Yinan vs Lagno  0-1261999Wch U10 GirlsC42 Petrov Defense
17. Lagno vs T Meskhi  0-1421999Wch U10 GirlsB10 Caro-Kann
18. K Revesz vs Lagno  0-1261999Wch U10 GirlsC43 Petrov, Modern Attack
19. Lagno vs V Gunina 1-0511999Wch U10 GirlsC01 French, Exchange
20. Lagno vs N Darbinyan  0-1541999Wch U10 GirlsB74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical
21. Lagno vs Luong Huyen Ngoc  1-0431999Wch U10 GirlsB72 Sicilian, Dragon
22. Lagno vs V Nebolsina 1-0241999Wch U10 GirlsC24 Bishop's Opening
23. S R Sgircea vs Lagno  0-1381999Wch U10 GirlsA07 King's Indian Attack
24. Lagno vs X Zhang  ½-½601999Wch U10 GirlsC01 French, Exchange
25. A Golovanj vs Lagno  1-05620008th Ukrainian Team ChampionshipA80 Dutch
 page 1 of 72; games 1-25 of 1,781  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
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Dec-27-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  eternaloptimist: Happy Birthday to the beautiful & brainy Kateryna Lahno!
Nov-16-18  JimNorCal: Seems like other sites, such as Chess24, call her Lagno. Should CG consider changing the spelling?
Nov-16-18  zanzibar: <<JNC> Should CG consider changing the spelling?> yes.
Dec-30-18  tigreton: Congratulations, Kateryna!
Dec-30-18  sonia91: Congratulations on winning the King Salman Blitz World Championship (Women) (2018)!

Just as her childhood friend Sergey Karjakin two years ago, after finishing as runner-up in the classical world championship, she won the blitz championship.

Dec-31-18  BUNA: Maybe it's time to fix her biography a little bit?

On official documents of FIDE (https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?...) her name is now transliterated as Lagno.

She isn't married to Robert Fontaine anymore. Instead she's living with Alexander Grischuk, with whom she has two daughters.

Dec-31-18  zanzibar: <BUNA> I'm not too sure about the last paragraph in your post.

I agree with the first two though.

Jan-27-19  wordfunph: good luck, Kateryna!
Jan-27-19  torrefan: Kaya mo yan Katreyona!
Jun-06-19  fabelhaft: <she's living with Alexander Grischuk, with whom she has two daughters>

That might be true, they have been very silent about these matters though. Almost all Internet sources list Grischuk and Zhukova as married and none of them mention Grischuk and Lagno in any connection.

If Grischuk and Lagno have two children it can’t be an entirely new thing either, I recollect some interview from five years ago or so, where Zhukova referred to Lagno as a ”parasite” (connected to her federation switch to Russia), and a World Blitz Championship game from around the same time between Lagno and Grischuk, which was drawn.

Lagno confirmed that she has four children. Can’t be easy to keep playing top chess with four young kids, she is only 29 herself even if it feels as if she has been playing for ages.

Jun-06-19  fabelhaft: Grischuk & Lagno has to be the strongest chess couple ever, being #6 and #5 on the respective rating lists. Zhukova never reached 2500 and is down to the lower 2300s nowadays. Ivanchuk & Galliamova come close, but when Galliamova peaked they had already been separated for a few years.
Jun-06-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <BUNA: Maybe it's time to fix her biography a little bit?> Yes, will you volunteer? There's no <twinlark> around to do it any more. No Americans will do it eiher, probably because they've forgot about the good reasons to work for free. https://www.moneycrashers.com/reaso...
Jun-10-19  BUNA: <Tabanus>I would edit the bio "when the time comes". But until now I haven't seen any "official" statements about Kateryna Lagno's personal matters. So I've been basically spreading rumors. ;)

Let's just wait for some more time.

Sep-02-19  virginmind: Just found from another source that she is married with Grischuk, and I was sure that it was an error, as I knew for quite some time that Grischuk's wife was (and thought it still is) Natalia Zhukova. Then I found a couple of confirmations, including this one here. Wow! I hope I don't harm some feelings, but I somehow feel better. And wish them all the best together!
Sep-15-19  virginmind: Sorry, by "married" I meant being a couple (they also have two children), I don't know if they are formally married or not.
May-18-20  et1: https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/202... This game will be famous one day. It lasted 152 moves which must be a record in that format. Furthermore between move 101 and move 128 Kateryna who only needed a draw to win moved her bishop of white colors 28 times back and forth between b7 and c6. Incredible. This is what great sport is about.
May-18-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  paulalbert: This game unfortunately demonstrated the potential absurdity of the Armageddon game concept. In a totally blocked and drawn position, Tienglie, ahead on time, just moved back and forth trying to flag Lagno. Eventually at risk of a 50 move draw giving Lagno the win because of draw odds for black, she made on move 127 a pawn advance, clearly a losing move, but giving another shot at flagging Lagno by starting 50 count over. All of course totally legal under the rules, but a little absurd from a chess perspective.
May-19-20  SirChrislov: <et1> be famous one day or left in oblivion? embarrassing play by both sides I'd say, a back and forth silly dance until white had to do something but had no good moves so ended up losing. she won legally and I know 1st prize was at stake but the game left a bad image. As GM Eduard Gufeld used to say in his Ukrainian accent... "this is not chess."
May-19-21  Albertan: GM Kateryna Lagno is the top seed in the
Women’s FIDE Grand Prix Gibraltar which will take place from May 22 to June 2, 2021. For more information about the tournament go to this website:

https://www.fide.com/news/1088

Oct-05-21  Albertan: Chess Federation of Russia wins the Women’s World Team Championship:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/russi...

Lagno scored 9/10 in the event!!!

Oct-24-21  Albertan: Lagno is the top-rated Woman player in the FIDE Chess.com Woman’s Grand Swiss tournament being played from October 27th-November 8th:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

Dec-27-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Breunor: Wikipedia says she is married to Grischuk. It has footnotes to an official source, but it is in Russian.
Feb-14-22  Albertan: Chess Romances:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

Oct-06-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: Future world champion!
Oct-06-22  stone free or die: Her <CG> bio desperately needs updating.

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