Anna Zatonskih

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Anna Zatonskih, Mainz 2010
Association UkraineUkraine Ukraine (until 2003) United States (since 2003)
United StatesUnited States 
Born July 17, 1978
Mariupol
title International Master of Women (1995)
Grand Master of Women (1999)
International Master (2004)
Current  Elo rating 2420 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2537 (May 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Anna Zatonskih ( Ukrainian Анна Затонських / Anna Satonskych; born July 17, 1978 in Mariupol , Donetsk Oblast ) is a Ukrainian - American chess player .

Life

At the age of five, Anna Zatonskih learned to play chess from her parents, two strong chess players. Her father Vitaly (* 1949) is a FIDE master . In 2002 she moved to Ohio, in 2005 she moved to Long Island . She is married and has a daughter (* 2007) and a son (* 2015) with the Latvian-German chess grandmaster Daniel Fridman .

Chess successes

The multiple Ukrainian youth champion won the Ukrainian women's championship in 2001 and 2002. She won the US women's championship in San Diego in 2006 , in Tulsa in 2008 and in 2009 and 2011 in St. Louis .

She has held the title of Women's Grand Master since 1999 and the title of International Master since July 2004 . She met the IM standards in December 2002 at the Lindsborg Rotary Open , in July 2003 at the World Open in Philadelphia and in October 2003 at the Monarch Assurance in Port Erin . She led for many years the US Elo at was ranked in the women.

National team

Anna Zatonskih has participated in all ten women's chess Olympiads since 2000 , until 2002 for the Ukraine, since 2004 for the USA. With the USA she finished second in 2004 and third in 2008, and in 2008 she also won the individual ranking on the second board.

With the US Zatonskih also participated in the World Team Championships for women in 2009 and 2013, in part, with Ukraine at the European Team Championships for women in 1999 and 2001. In the European Team Championships in 1999 she reached the second-highest individual score on the second board and the third best Elo performance of all participants .

societies

OSG Baden-Baden 2012 in Baden-Baden

In the Ukrainian team championship in 1999 Zatonskih played on the top board of the Grandmaster School Kiev , which competed with an all-women team. With the Grandmaster School Kiev Zatonskih also took part in the European Club Cups for women in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, she came second in 1998, and third in 1997 and 1999. At the European Women's Club Cup 2000 Zatonskih reached third place with Danko-Donbass .

In the 2007/08 season she played for a German club for the first time, namely for the second team of SV Mülheim-Nord in the North Rhine-Westphalian Oberliga (3rd division). Since the 2009/10 season she has been playing in the Oberliga NRW and 2nd League West for Bochumer SV .

She has also played in the German women's Bundesliga since the 2008/09 season for OSG Baden-Baden , with which she was team champion in the 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 and 2017/18 seasons has been.

In China she played for Shenzhen Shirble in 2005 , in 2016 for the Masters Shanghai Jianqiao University , in 2017 for Hangzhou Bank and in 2019 for Zhihui Sports chess team of Tianjin . In the Dutch Meester class she played for HMC Calder Den Bosch , in Belgium earlier for Ans , since 2008 for Schachfreunde Wirtzfeld , with whom she won the team championship in the 2008/09 and 2017/18 seasons .

In Belarus she plays for the EPAM chess club , with which she took part in the European Women's Club Cup in 2008; Zatonskih also took part in the European Women's Club Cup 2011 with AEM-Luxten Timişoara (with whom she reached second place) and in 2014 with Ladja Kazan .

Web links

Commons : Anna Zatonskih  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
  2. ↑ Anna Zatonskih's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Results of the US team at the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad on chess-results.com
  4. ↑ Anna Zatonskih's results at the women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Anna Zatonskih's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Anna Zatonskih's results at the Ukrainian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ a b Anna Zatonskih's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Zatonskih, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Затонських, Анна (Ukrainian); Satonskych, Anna (transcription from Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariupol