ANTOANETA STEFANOVA (born Apr-19-1979, 46 years old) Bulgaria [what is this?] Antoaneta Stefanova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She learned to play when she was four years old and won her first tournament at the age of 7 in Sofia. In 1989, she became the inaugural U10 World Girls Champion. Stefanova has played for Bulgaria in five Chess Olympiads, starting in Manila in 1992 when she was 13 years old. In 2000, she was promoted to the Bulgarian men's team for the Istanbul Olympiad. She won the European Women's Championship in 2002, achieved her peak rating of 2560 in January 2003. She was awarded the IM title in 1997 and the Grandmaster title in 2002. In 2012, she won the Women's World Rapid Championship (2012) outright with 8.5/11. She is also a FIDE Senior Trainer (2015). Stefanova won the FIDE Women's World Championship (2004) in Elista, Kalmykia, and competed in the FIDE Women's World Championship (2006) in Ekaterinburg, Russia, making it through to the second round. She also reached round 4 (quarter finals) of the Women's World Championship (2008) in Nalchik in the Russian oblast of Kabardino-Balkaria. She came very close to taking the title a second time at the FIDE Knock-out Women's World Championship (2012), defeating Russian IM and WGM Marina Romanko Guseva, former Women's World Champion, Chinese GM Zhu Chen, Polish GM Monika (Bobrowska) Socko, French GM Marie Sebag, and Indian GM Dronavalli Harika, before losing in the first set of tiebreakers of the final to Ukrainian IM Anna Ushenina. Live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/women Wikipedia article: Antoaneta Stefanova

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page 1 of 99; games 1-25 of 2,453  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Stefanova vs S Savova   1-0 32 1989 BUL-ch 38th (Women) D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 2. A Stefanova vs S Savova   ½-½ 30 1991 BUL-ch (Women) A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 3. A Stefanova vs M Velcheva   0-1 35 1991 BUL-ch (Women) D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation) 4. E Georgieva vs A Stefanova   ½-½ 34 1991 BUL-ch (Women) D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation) 5. A Stefanova vs E Georgieva   1-0 39 1992 BUL-chT (Women) D79 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O, Main line 6. A Stefanova vs H Ilieva   ½-½ 49 1992 BUL-chT (Women) D73 Neo-Grunfeld, 5.Nf3 7. N Kruljac vs A Stefanova   0-1 25 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls A07 King's Indian Attack 8. N Gukova vs A Stefanova   0-1 36 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls E10 Queen's Pawn Game 9. A Stefanova vs N Mereacre 1-0 53 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls B12 Caro-Kann Defense 10. M Socko vs A Stefanova   ½-½ 47 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls A11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System 11. M Luks vs A Stefanova 0-1 17 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls B01 Scandinavian 12. A Stefanova vs S Tqeshelashvili   ½-½ 32 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls D02 Queen's Pawn Game 13. A Stefanova vs M Vasiltseva 1-0 23 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls D02 Queen's Pawn Game 14. A Stefanova vs E Zlatanova   ½-½ 33 1992 BUL-ch (Women) D79 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O, Main line 15. A Stefanova vs E Hagesaether   1-0 28 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 16. A Stefanova vs C Peptan   ½-½ 23 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls A48 King's Indian 17. M Koen vs A Stefanova   1-0 38 1992 BUL-ch (Women) D36 Queen's Gambit Declined, Exchange, Positional line, 6.Qc2 18. Stela Milanova vs A Stefanova   0-1 11 1992 BUL-ch (Women) B01 Scandinavian 19. A Stefanova vs N Karakashian   1-0 50 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 20. S de Vries vs A Stefanova   ½-½ 25 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 21. M Ranniku vs A Stefanova ½-½ 72 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation) 22. A Stefanova vs S Sabirova   0-1 18 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 23. A Stefanova vs I Zak   1-0 36 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) D02 Queen's Pawn Game 24. A Stefanova vs M Sulistya   0-1 41 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) A46 Queen's Pawn Game 25. C Peptan vs A Stefanova   1-0 41 1992 Mangalia Balkaniad (girls) B01 Scandinavian  page 1 of 99; games 1-25 of 2,453

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1 OF 8 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-10-03    Benzol: No picture of her but her rating can only be envied. Oct-10-03    Honza Cervenka: Some pictures of her are on http://www.chesslive.de/scripts/ser... (Click <next> on the site to see the next photo.) Oct-10-03    Benzol: Thanks <Honza> Oct-10-03    Tecumseh: She looks kind of hungover in one or two of those pictures. She has a reputation as a bit of a wild child, going out drinking and dancing during tournaments yet she hit 2560 not long ago and is number 2 woman player in the world behind Judit Polgar. I believe she is much admired by her contemparies for her strength and lifestyle. Jun-04-04    percyblakeney: Apparently very little interest in women's chess, with no comments on the ongoing world championship or Stefanova's approaching victory... I mean, the tournament did contain a few 2500+ players? Jun-04-04    acirce: That is obviously no "real" WC since the best female player isn't participating. (I'm using the fuzzy logic of some other kibitzers regarding Libya here) Jun-04-04    mikejaqua: Actually she's about number 10 among women players right now. She was number 2 last year but had a bad year. Looks like she's recovered now though. Should be back over 2500 after this performance. Hope they put the games from the women's WC up here soon. The two by Stefanova and Kovalevskaya so far have been very instructive. Jun-05-04    percyblakeney: <acirce> All the future "real" and "unreal" WC's of the men give me no other feeling than boredom right now, it has been fun to follow a tournament where some chess actually is played... Jun-05-04    acirce: <percyblakeney> I agree with you, but IMO the quality is a bit too low to be as interesting as the best "male" tournaments. Jun-05-04    acirce: Anyway, Stefanova seems to have some problems right now in today's game but it will probably be a draw. Jun-05-04    acirce: Following the game? Quite thrilling. Jun-05-04    percyblakeney: <acirce> A draw, as you said, and Stefanova is now 2.5-0.5 up. Jun-05-04    acirce: Which means she has won the match and the WC title. Congratulations! Jun-05-04    percyblakeney: Yes, congratulations! ChessBase wrongly claim the final will be in six games, which I believed for a while... Jun-08-04    ruylopez900: Here is the illustrated report of Stefanova's win from chessbase.com http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp... Jun-12-04    shahul: can i see more pics of her,honza Jun-12-04    shahul: thank you, honza may i know you,please Jun-28-04    Dionyseus: Bunch of pics from her recent simul can be found here: http://wcc2004.fide.com/igallery/fo... Oh and don't forget to download that 24mb video of her in the simul, a must have. Arrrrrgh, she's so hot. She's two years older than me, but I sure wouldn't mind. *grins* Jul-31-04    clocked: <acirce> logic you disagree with or that is faulty is not "fuzzy", unless you had something else in mind...? Jul-31-04    dafish298: <Dionyseus> yea she is very hot lol. and i havent even seen her in person...but from what i hear she is even better looking in person and she is quite the party animal too lol Aug-01-04    acirce: <clocked> I have no idea what your last post means. Aug-01-04    acirce: Because the validity of "this is not a true WC since the best players aren't here" is not clear. Aug-01-04    acirce: Ok so what is the clear answer? Aug-01-04    acirce: *yawn* Sep-16-04    yoozum: who is the legit women's champion, stefanova or zu chen. i get so confused because it seems that there are so many female "champions". i know that almira s. is the european champion, and that stefanova is the world champion, so what kind of champion is zu chen? is the the chinese champio? please help me out. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 8) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1 OF 8 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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