Alissa Mikhailovna Galljamova

Alissa Galljamowa in Satka , 2018
Association	Ukraine Russia
Born	January 18, 1972 Kazan , Soviet Union
title	International Master of Women (1988) Grand Master of Women (1989) International Master (1993)
Current  Elo rating	2438 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2560 (July 1998)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alissa Michailovna Galljamowa ( Russian Алиса Михайловна Галлямова ; born January 18, 1972 in Kazan ) is a Russian chess player .

Career

Galljamowa grew up in a Russian - Tatar family. She was taught chess at the All-Russia Chess Grandmasters school (ACGS). She has been the Women's Grand Master (WGM) since 1989 and International Master (IM) since 1993 . Galljamowa first played for the Soviet, then for the Ukrainian and now for the Russian Chess Federation .

Galljamowa won the youth world championships in the U16 female age group in 1987 in Innsbruck and in 1988 in Timișoara . In 1988, when she was 15, she won the U20 World Chess Championship for girls in Adelaide, ahead of Ketewan Arachamia and Jelena Sajaz .

At the 1990 women's interzonal tournament in Azov she was behind Ketino Kachiani and at the 1993 women's interzonal tournament in Jakarta behind Ketewan Arachamia second. In 1997 she won the Russian women's championship in Elista . In the same year she was supposed to play a candidate match for the World Cup against the Chinese Xie Jun , but because Galljamowa did not want to play the full match in China, Xie Jun was declared the winner. After Zsuzsa Polgár did not appear at the 1999 World Cup , Galljamowa was allowed to play again against Xie Jun, but lost with 6.5: 8.5. The first half was played in Kazan , the second in Shenyang . At the European women's individual championship in 2002 in Varna ( Bulgaria ), she won the bronze medal in the jump-off. At the 2006 Women's World Cup in Yekaterinburg , she was runner-up. She lost the final to Xu Yuhua 0.5: 2.5. For the second time she won the Russian women's championship in Moscow in December 2009 , and in November 2010 she defended her title.

Until December 2003 she was third in the women's world rankings.

From 1991 to 2000 she was married to the Grand Master Vasyl Ivanchuk . Galljamowa lives in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan .

National team

Galljamowa took part in five women's chess Olympiads between 1990 and 2010 , she played for the Soviet Union in 1990, for Ukraine in 1992 and in 1996 , 2000 and 2010 for Russia. With the team she became Olympic champion in 2010, achieved second places in 1990 and 1992 and third place in 1996 and 2000. In the individual ranking she came in third on the first board in 1990 and second in 1992, and in 1992 and 2000 she achieved the second-best rating of all participants. In the team's World Cup Women 2013 in Astana they took third place with Russia, also took four team European Championships of women in part (1992 with Ukraine, in 1997, 2003 and 2005 with Russia). Galljamowa won in 1992 with the Ukrainian team, she also achieved the best individual result on the top board and the best rating performance of all participants. In 2003 and 2005 she landed with the team in third place, in 2005 she still achieved the third-best individual result of the reserve players.

societies

At the Russian team championship Galljamowa took part in 1996 with the second team of Tattransgas-Itil-1 Kazan (with which she took part in the European Club Cup a year later ) and in 2003 with the master Ladja Kazan-1000 . Galljamowa took part in the European Women's Club Cup four times. In 1996 and 2000 she won the competition with Agrouniversal Zemun , and in 2000 she also achieved the best individual result on the second board, in 2003 she achieved third place with Ladja Kazan-1000 and won the individual ranking on the first board. In 2014 she ran again for Ladja Kazan .

Web links

Commons : Alissa Galljamowa  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Alissa Michailovna Galljamowa on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview ( memento of August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) with Alexander Nikolajewitsch Pantschenko (English)
2. ↑ Soviet triumph among girls . Schach-Echo -Verlag, JugendSchach issue 0/88, p. 6 to 7 (report with picture and games by Bettina Trabert ).
3. ↑ Alissa Galljamowa's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Alissa Galljamowa's results at the Women's Team World Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Alissa Galljamowa's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Alissa Galljamowa's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Alissa Galljamowas results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Alissa Galljamowa's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)