Antoaneta Stefanova

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Antoaneta Stefanowa 2005
Surname Antoaneta Stefanova
Association BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria
Born April 19, 1979
Sofia , Bulgaria
title International Master of Women (1994)
Grand Master of Women (1994)
International Master (1997)
Grand Master (2002)
world champion 2004-2006
Current  Elo rating 2462 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2560 (January 2003, May to July 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Antoaneta Stefanowa ( Bulgarian Антоанета Стефанова ; born April 19, 1979 in Sofia ) is a Bulgarian chess player .

Life

She learned to play chess at the age of four, together with her sister Liana, who was three years older than her father Andon Stefanow. At the age of seven she became city champion of Sofia.

In 1989 she became the U10 female youth world champion in Puerto Rico , winning all 11 games. In 1992 she became European Youth Champion in the U14 female group. In the same year she played her first Chess Olympiad . In 1995 she won the national championship for women with 13 points from 14 games. In 2000 she was appointed to the Bulgarian men's national team. In 2002 she became European women's chess champion in Varna . In the same year she gained the title of Grand Master .

In 2004 she won in Elista by a 2.5: 0.5 victory in the final against Ekaterina Kovalevskaya the Women's World Chess Championship . Shortly before, she had finished third at the European Women's Championship in Dresden . As world champion, Stefanova qualified for the 2005 World Chess Cup , where she lost to Ivan Sokolov 0.5: 1.5 in the first round . In 2008 she won the North Urals Cup in Krasnoturjinsk , which, with an average rating of 2522 among the participants, was described as the best-manned women's tournament of all time.

In June 2012 she won the women's world championship in rapid chess in Batumi .

In February 2015, Stefanova was in 15th place in the women's world rankings. She has been leading the Bulgarian ranking of women since July 1995, in the entire Bulgarian Elo list she is 11th. From January to July 2003 she was second in the women's world ranking.

Elo development

National team

Since 1992 Stefanova took part in all twelve Chess Olympiads . She played in the open class in 2000 , in the other events in the women's competition. From 1999 to 2013 she took part in all eight team European championships for women on the top board and won two individual medals. In 2009 she had the second best, in 2005 the third best individual result on the first board.

societies

The Russian team championship of the women won Stefanova 2004 and 2005 with the AWS Krasnoturyinsk , with whom she also six times European Club Cup women took part and this 2011, won in 2009 with the team of Spartak Vidnoye with which they in the same year the European Club Women's Cup won. In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) she played for Guildford A&DC for the first time in the 2002/03 season , she has played for this team again since 2012 and won the 4NCL in 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 and 2018 . In France, Stefanowa played for Clichy-Echecs-92 from 2002 to 2009 . She played in the top division, the Top 16, in the 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons and won the French women's team championship in 2003 , 2005 , 2007 and 2009 . Stefanowa has also played for RAD Belgrade and ULIM Chişinău . In the German women's Bundesliga she has been playing for OSG Baden-Baden since the 2015/16 season and won the title with them in 2016 and 2018 . In the Chinese team championship, she played for Zhejiang in 2016 , for Tianjin in 2017 and for Shandong in 2019 .

literature

  • Vladimir Georgiev, Simeon Stoichkov: Antoaneta Stefanova. CIELA, Sofia 2004. ISBN 954-649-735-5 . (Text in Bulgarian and English)

Web links

Commons : Antoaneta Stefanova  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antoaneta Stefanova is world champion 2004 In: de.chessbase.com. June 6, 2004, accessed August 19, 2019.
  2. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  3. ↑ Antoaneta Stefanowa's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Antoaneta Stefanowa's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Antoaneta Stefanowa's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ a b c Antoaneta Stefanowa's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ OlimpBase :: Chinese Chess League :: Antoaneta Stefanova. In: OlimpBase. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stefanova, Antoaneta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Стефанова, Антоанета (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian chess player and world chess champion
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia