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 1,654  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 1,654

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 15 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-17-06    SickedChess: The Games in a tournament that WGM Iweta Radziewicz won and Anna Muzychuk also played http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday... Maybe Iweta improve a lot training with Rybka ;) Feb-17-06    SickedChess: Anna sacrifice her queen and won! [Event "First Saturday 2006 februar GM"] [Site "Budapest"] [Date "2006.02.12"] [Round "8"] [White "Muzyczuk, Anna"] [Black "Bellia, Fabrizio"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C01"] [WhiteElo "2417"] [BlackElo "2390"] [EventDate "2006.02.05"] [PlyCount "77"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. d4 d5 7. Bd3 Be7 8. Bf4 O-O 9. h3 c6 10. O-O Re8 11. Ne5 Nbd7 12. Ne2 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Nd7 14. Nd4 Nc5 15. c3 Nxd3 16. Qxd3 Bf8 17. Rad1 Qb6 18. Rd2 Bd7 19. Re1 g6 20. Qg3 Qa6 21. b3 c5 22. Nf3 Bf5 23. h4 Qa5 24. Re3 Rad8 25. Bg5 Rd7 26. h5 Qa3 27. Kh2 Qc1 28. hxg6 Bxg6 29. Bf6 Re6 30. Qf4 b5 31. b4 a6 32. bxc5 Bxc5 33. Rd4 Qc2 34. Qh6 Bf8 35. Qh4 Rc7 36. Rxd5 Re8 37. Ng5 Rxc3 38. e6 Rxe3 39. Qxh7+ 1-0 Feb-24-06    blingice: <Karpova> No, it wasn't about individuals being stupid, I think it is just males being collectively stupid, so that on every single female's page that I have seen there is a comment about the girl being beautiful. I'm criticizing them more for the comment in general, rather than what I believe is wrong taste. :) <SickedChess> Did you submit those to <CG.com>? Feb-24-06    Karpova: well, not on all pages of famous female chessplayers... Maia Chiburdanidze Pia Cramling Nona Gaprindashvili but seriously, you are right. some people get attention who do neither deserve it due to their chess skills and/or their looks. i think that it's not that strange, since adoring a chessplayer is if you are one yourself is understandeble. it's like a nerd adoring another, famous, nerd even if their object of lust is not that good looking compared to models/movie stars. Feb-24-06    SickedChess: <blingice<SickedChess> Did you submit those to <CG.com>?> don´t know how can summit it? I need to be a cg member also to do it? Feb-24-06    SickedChess: I mean premium member ;) Feb-24-06    Karpova: <SickedChess> just use this tool PGN Upload Utility (the link is on the right side of the main page). and you don't need to be a premium member to upload games Feb-25-06    SickedChess: thank you Karpova! Feb-25-06    babakova: If I were to meet a ( not necessarily super cute, but not ugly) girl and just for laughs suggest we play a game of chess and it turns out she knows how to play(well), I would probably fall in love.. But commenting on female chessplayers looks on the internet seems... Pointless. Feb-25-06    TheAlchemist: I read a few months ago she has big problems with the Slovenian Chess Federation. She had been promised the citizenship and still hasn't received it (she is only on our rating list), she had been promised financial support from the federation (or the ministry, I don't remember), and other promises that haven't been kept. Personally, I am ashamed, how we are treating a future (or even present already) chess star, I hope she won't leave our country over similar disputes as with the Ukrainian Chess Federation. I hope this got settled already, but if it hadn't been done in 2 years... I hope for the best. Feb-25-06    SickedChess: maybe Germany could be a better country for improving her chess skills Feb-25-06    TheAlchemist: As I said, I wish she would continue competing for Slovenia. She is the 1st board we have been waiting for a long time, we have a very talented team, that is capable of very good results. Actually, she chose Slovenia following the footsteps of Beliavsky and Mikhalchishin. Feb-25-06    popski: Yes, shame on you slovenia. Without those foreign people you are nowhere in chess world. Real shame... Feb-25-06    TheAlchemist: Vidmar, Pirc, Puc, Parma and Planinc were very good players from the past, Jure Borisek and Luka Lenic have won medals in internaional junior championships, others were close. Since we're only a 2 million nation, that's not that bad. Plus, we don't have the means like in many other countries. And since chess is not an easy way of making a living, many our players opted for a career and finished schools, got jobs and don't take up chess as seriously as they should in order to succeed. Feb-25-06    SickedChess: <<TheAlchemist>: we have a very talented team, that is capable of very good results.> yup some strong slovenian girls here: http://www.goteborgchess2005.se/tea... Vesna Rozic is a hottie :) Feb-25-06    midknightblue: <blingice> whether i find her to be beautiful or not doesn't seem important. Why is it a big deal whether you agree with previous posters about her looks. I think they are entitled to comment as they please. Certainly you made one valid point, that some people seem to go overboard claiming that almost every female chess player is phenominally beautiful. However, beyone that I dont see a reason to criticize people simply because they dont agree exactly with you about somebodies beauty. Furthermore, I see nothing wrong with someone stating their views on appearance, as well as chess skill. It is not uncommon for people to comment about the appearance of male players too - there, smile, clothing whatever. Do you feel that we need stronger censorship, so that there are no comments at all except about their chess play? Feb-26-06    popski: < Since we're only a 2 million nation, ... <>> yea, yea, i know, too small for so many aliens... Feb-26-06    raydot: You'd think you fellas had never seen a (picture of a) girl before. Can you imagine meeting her at a tournament, and saying to her, "Hi, was me that posted XYZ on CG?" If you can't, and wouldn't, you probably shouldn't post it here. So, is anyone else impressed with the fact that this talented 16-year-old has played some amazing games? Mar-01-06    SickedChess: yes i was impressed for her games. Even Susan Polgar thinks that Muzychuk is very talented. Mar-02-06    John Abraham: Did everyone forget her birthday? Even though I am two days late, I wish Anna Muzychuk a happy and sweet 16th birthday !!! Mar-02-06    TheAlchemist: Ouch, February 28. Shouldn't this be only her 4th birthday? :-)) Mar-02-06    Jim Bartle: Hey, Raydot, stop making stuff up! Of course we've seen pictures of girls before, lots of them. It's actual girls we've never seen... Mar-02-06    PinkPanther: As far as I know, Muzychuk was originally a citizen of Slovenia and plays in the Ukraine because the chess community there is better. Mar-02-06    John Abraham: You are right <PinkPanther>, which means the bio above is wrong...can someone please fix it? Mar-03-06    TheAlchemist: No, Muzychuk was born and played for the Ukraine up to 2003. In 2004 she switched to the Slovenian rating list (she could compete for Slovenia, but she wasn't given the citizenship yet). Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 15) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 15 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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