ANNA MUZYCHUK (born Feb-28-1990, 35 years old) Ukraine PRONUNCIATION: [what is this?] WFM (2001), WIM (2002), WGM (2004), IM (2007) and GM (2012). She represented Slovenia on board 1 in every women's Olympiad from 2004 to 2012 inclusive. In 2014, she returned to play for Ukraine. Born in L'viv, Ukraine, Anna took an early liking to chess, leading her to become the under-8 European champion in 1996. She has competed in and won numerous age-based championship tournaments for girls in the Ukraine, Europe and the World, her most notable successes occurring in 2003, when she was the winner of Women's Ukrainian Championship, in 2004 when won the Championship of Ukraine (U20 Girls) and was runner up in the Girls U14 World Championship, and in 2005 when she won the World U16 (Girls) World Championship. She competed in the Women's World Championship (2008) in Nalchik where she reached the second round before bowing out to Dronavalli Harika. She also competed in the Women's World Chess Championship (2010) and made it to the third round, but was eliminated from the tournament by Ju Wenjun. In 2004 she became a citizen of Slovenia, becoming the strongest Slovenian female player. Anna won her first GM norm at the 2008 European Club Cup, winning the gold medal on board 1 for her team T-Com Podgorica. Also in 2008 she won the Moscow Open C-ladies tournament with 8.0/9 and came equal first with 7/9 in the 1st Scandinavian International Ladies Open held in Stockholm. In 2009 she came equal second in the Snezenky a Machri - Czech Coal Chess Match and won her 2nd GM norm at the Inventi Chess Tournament (2009) held in Antwerp. In 2010 she won the Maia Chiburdanidze Cup in Georgia with 8.0/9, played in the Corus Group B (2010), finishing with a score of 5,5/13 and a performance of 2583, won the World Junior Championship (Girls) (2010) with 11/13 and scored 7/10 on first board for Slovenia at the Chess Olympiad (Women) (2010). She secured her third GM norm at the Shenzhen Women's Grand Prix (2011) when she came 2nd with 7/11 (+3 -0 =8) behind Yifan Hou and soon after her 8.5/9 as Slovenia's top board at the European Team Championship (Women) (2011) secured her the event's highest rating performance, 2782, and her fourth GM norm*. Muzychuk scored 6.5/10 at the Tradewise Gibraltar (2012), following up with =1st (3rd on tiebreak) at the European Individual Women's Championship (2012) and =1st (2nd on tiebreak) at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Kazan (2012). She came 3rd in the 2011-12 Women's Grand Prix series behind Yifan Hou and Koneru Humpy. Then came her elimination in the second round of the FIDE Knock-out Women's World Championship (2012) by the eventual winner and 2012 Women's World Champion, Anna Ushenina. She started 2013 with 7/10 at Tradewise Gibraltar (2013) and 2nd placement at the Women Grand Prix Geneva (2013) with 7.5/11, half a point behind the winner Bela Khotenashvili. Muzychuk started 2014 by scoring 8/13 (+4 -1 =8) to place 4th at the category 14 Tata Steel Group B (2014) behind Ivan Saric, Jan Timman and Baadur Jobava. She followed up with a modest 5.5/10 at Tradewise Gibraltar (2014) and =4th with 6/11 at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Khanty - Mansiysk (2014). She scored 5.5/11 at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Lopota (2014). She was also =3rd at the Women's World Rapid Championship in April with 10/15, half a point from the lead, and then won the Women's World Blitz Championship 2014 with 23/30, 2.5 points clear of the field. In August she played top board for the Ukrainian women's team in the Chess Olympiad (Women) (2014) staged in Tromsø, scoring 6/10 and winning team bronze. In September 2014, she played board 2 for the CE de Monte Carlo club in the European Women's Club Championship, winning individual and team silver. She is playing top board for OSG Baden Baden in the Frauenbundesliga 2014-15. She also won the Ukraine Women's Final in November 2014. In 2015, Muzychuk finished strongly in the Tradewise Gibraltar (2015) to score 6.5/10, and was the top scoring woman in the event. Soon afterwards, she played in the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship (2015) and defeated Amina Mezioud, Aleksandra Goryachkina, and Lela Javakhishvili in the early rounds before bowing out in the fourth round to Pia Cramling in the tiebreaker rapid match. Anna's sister, Mariya Muzychuk, won the Women's World Championship in 2015. In the August 2012 rating list, Muzychuk recorded a career high rating of 2606, only the fourth female player to rate over 2600, briefly ranking as #2 woman in the world. Live rating (women's): http://www.2700chess.com/women * http://ratings.fide.com/title_appli... Wikipedia article: Anna Muzychuk Last updated: 2017-02-24 11:07:08

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page 1 of 67; games 1-25 of 1,657  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Lagno vs A Muzychuk   ½-½ 66 1997 Wch U10 Girls B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein 2. A Muzychuk vs Lagno   ½-½ 68 1999 UKR-ch U12 Girls C42 Petrov Defense 3. A Muzychuk vs D Tarleva   0-1 47 2000 UKR-ch U12W C58 Two Knights 4. Lagno vs A Muzychuk   ½-½ 29 2000 UKR-ch U12 Girls B01 Scandinavian 5. H Dronavalli vs A Muzychuk   1-0 49 2000 Wch U10 Girls A04 Reti Opening 6. A Ushenina vs A Muzychuk   1-0 42 2001 UKR-ch U20 Girls A87 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation 7. N Kosintseva vs A Muzychuk   ½-½ 101 2001 European Championship (Women) B01 Scandinavian 8. A Muzychuk vs E Moser 0-1 49 2001 European Championship (Women) C18 French, Winawer 9. I Tetenkina vs A Muzychuk 0-1 99 2001 European Championship (Women) A00 Uncommon Opening 10. A Muzychuk vs T Lanchava 0-1 34 2001 European Championship (Women) A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6) 11. A Benderac vs A Muzychuk   1-0 48 2001 European Championship (Women) A04 Reti Opening 12. A Muzychuk vs Z Sarakauskiene   ½-½ 61 2001 European Championship (Women) B20 Sicilian 13. S Gvetadze vs A Muzychuk   1-0 34 2001 European Championship (Women) B01 Scandinavian 14. A Muzychuk vs M Reszka   1-0 64 2001 European Championship (Women) B21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4 15. A Muzychuk vs S Buervenich   ½-½ 39 2001 European Championship (Women) B20 Sicilian 16. E Partac vs A Muzychuk 0-1 33 2001 European Championship (Women) B01 Scandinavian 17. A Muzychuk vs J Krivec   1-0 39 2001 European Championship (Women) C59 Two Knights 18. T Marinina vs A Muzychuk   0-1 38 2001 EYCC G12 A83 Dutch, Staunton Gambit 19. A Muzychuk vs I Merkulova   ½-½ 56 2001 EYCC G12 A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 20. M Stefanova vs A Muzychuk   0-1 64 2001 EYCC G12 B01 Scandinavian 21. A Muzychuk vs S R Sgircea   ½-½ 45 2001 EYCC G12 B20 Sicilian 22. V Tarasova vs A Muzychuk   1-0 48 2001 EYCC G12 A10 English 23. A Muzychuk vs M Matyszewska   1-0 57 2001 EYCC G12 B53 Sicilian 24. A Muzychuk vs E Shmirina   1-0 41 2001 EYCC G12 C18 French, Winawer 25. E Egorova vs A Muzychuk   0-1 44 2001 EYCC G12 B01 Scandinavian  page 1 of 67; games 1-25 of 1,657

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 15 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-01-06    WTHarvey: Here is a little collection of Anna's OTB winning combinations: http://www.wtharvey.com/muzy.html Jan-04-06    PinkPanther: How old are you <WannaBe>? Jan-05-06    SickedChess: http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.ph... Top 20 Girls January 2006 Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2537 29 1987 2 Lahno, Kateryna m UKR 2500 7 1989 3 Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2479 6 1986 4 Dzagnidze, Nana m GEO 2452 24 1987 5 Muzychuk, Anna wg SLO 2417 34 1990 Feb-02-06    ChessVip: I would like to see her in Torino 2006! Feb-14-06    SickedChess: latest Anna pic! http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday... February 2006 Feb-14-06    mr. nice guy: This is one testosterone filled page! Feb-14-06    midknightblue: <sickedchess> Just curious, who is the babe on her right? Feb-14-06    John Abraham: <sickedchess> In that last pic, she has a pimple? Are you sure that is her BTW? She looks not so good in that pic but better in other pics. Strange... Feb-14-06    Jim Bartle: Are we really discussing whether a teenage girl has a pimple? Feb-14-06    Sonic Adventure: <Jim Bartle> LOL. Some like <John> will go to any lengths to demean themselves. Feb-15-06    blingice: I feel bad for all of you if the girls that live in your country are so bad that you think that girl is pretty. I'm sorry, I've held my tongue on every other page where there is a picture of a girl where people gush about she is "amazing" etc., but here, I cannot. She is not pretty whatsoever. I'm sorry to who all I may offend, but for real, this girl looks nothing like Tyra Banks, Giselle Bundechen, Heidi Klum, Eva Longoria, etc. Feb-15-06    John Abraham: <blingice> The women you mentioned are very pretty, yes, but I prefer to go for the younger women. I am confident that many on this site feel the same. Have a good day. Feb-15-06    Jim Bartle: Fifteen years old is a girl, not a woman. Feb-15-06    John Abraham: She is nearly 16 y.o. What you are saying is beside the point, and I know that you are aware of that. Feb-15-06    midknightblue: http://chessbase.com/espanola/image... Stop discussing this chick. We want to know who the REAL babe is! The chick on her right! Feb-15-06    WannaBe: <midnightblue> On her right? with the white T-shirt?! Feb-15-06    blingice: <John Abraham> It is definetely not beside any point if you prefer young women yet are oggling a very un-pretty girl. I suppose American culture has just taught me to marry girls at a sensible age rather than hearken back to Medieval times when eight year olds were sold to twenty year old men. This is what it reminds me of when you said that. Feb-15-06    tamar: <blingice> She's not trying to be a model, she is trying to be a chessplayer, and succeeding beyond 99% who post here. Please respect the players, as they may visit their pages. Feb-15-06    Jim Bartle: "Please respect the players, as they may visit their pages." That's excellent advice. I'd say you can certainly be critical, even have a little fun, but within limits. Feb-15-06    blingice: <tamar> I didn't start the discussion about her looks. I felt obligated, as a heterosexual man, to correct obviously fallacious (and awkward) swooning over someone who isn't that pretty, and to try and even attempt ending the STUPIDITY, I feel, is posting on EVERY SINGLE female player's page that I have seen where kibitzer after kibitzer makes the obligatory comment about the person being "amazingly beautiful". THEY AREN'T! I have seen ONE that was moderately pretty, but I restrained myself from making a stupid, ignorant, guffawing, cliche man-comment about how stunning she was and stopped the forum from becoming discussing her looks rather than her games and her career. She is a professional Chessplayer, and that's what she should be treated as in this forum. If Tyra Banks played a game and it was put into the database, discussion about her looks would be understandable because A. she is Victoria's Secret's lead model, and her job is to be beautiful, and B. her job ISN'T Chess. So, by just condemning me, you are perpetuating this idiocy that is the COMMENT after COMMENT of how pretty the female Chessplayers are on their pages. Yes, this is the angriest I've ever been on this website. Feb-15-06    chancho: Tyra Banks, Yeah, she is the bomb. Feb-15-06    tamar: <blingice> Which one did you like? No, don't say. I didn't mean to single you out, or to stifle a fun discussion, but to point out that she may be reading these. Feb-17-06    babakova: <Jim Bartle: Fifteen years old is a girl, not a woman.> Thats was what I was going to say... Feb-17-06    Karpova: <blingice: I felt obligated, as a heterosexual man, to correct obviously fallacious (and awkward) swooning over someone who isn't that pretty, and to try and even attempt ending the STUPIDITY, I feel, is posting on EVERY SINGLE female player's page that I have seen where kibitzer after kibitzer makes the obligatory comment about the person being "amazingly beautiful".> well, everybody has his own opinion and that's good. so if you don't find her pretty but others do, there's no need to call them stupid or trying to impose your own opinion upon the <nonbelievers> (which is in fact stupid). please show a bit of tolerance towards other human-beings (including anna muzychuk) Feb-17-06    SickedChess: Here her latest win: [Event "First Saturday 2006 februar GM"] [Site "Budapest"] [Date "2006.02.09"] [Round "5"] [White "Muzyczuk, Anna"] [Black "Morariu, Andrei"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B23"] [WhiteElo "2417"] [BlackElo "2461"] [EventDate "2006.02.05"] [PlyCount "91"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. Bxc6+ bxc6 5. d3 g6 6. f4 Bg7 7. Nf3 Nf6 8. O-O O-O 9. Qe1 Nd7 10. f5 e5 11. g4 f6 12. b3 Bb7 13. Ne2 c4 14. bxc4 d5 15. Rb1 Qc7 16. Nc3 dxc4 17. d4 Bc8 18. Qg3 Rb8 19. Rxb8 Qxb8 20. dxe5 Nxe5 21. Nxe5 fxe5 22. Ba3 Rf7 23. Rd1 Rd7 24. Rxd7 Bxd7 25. Qe3 a5 26. Qc5 Qd8 27. Qe7 Bf6 28. Qxd8+ Bxd8 29. Bc5 h5 30. h3 hxg4 31. hxg4 Kf7 32. Kf2 Bh4+ 33. Ke2 Bd8 34. Na4 Be8 35. Kf3 Kg7 36. Bd6 Kf6 37. a3 Bf7 38. Nc5 gxf5 39. exf5 Bd5+ 40. Ne4+ Kf7 41. Bxe5 a4 42. Kf4 Be7 43. Nd6+ Bxd6 44. Bxd6 c3 45. Be5 Ba2 46. Bxc3 1-0 Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 15) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 15 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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