Iulia-Ionela Ionicǎ

Iulia-Ionela Ionicǎ (until March 2004 with the World Chess Federation FIDE as Iulia Ionica ; born July 4, 1980 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian chess player .

successes

In 2001 she won the Romanian women's individual championship in Târgovişte , and the November tournament in Bucharest in 2003 . She reached second place at the Romanian women's championship in 2007 in Amara (behind Corina-Isabela Peptan ), third place each in 2004 in Brașov and in 2006 in Predeal . She played club chess in Romania for Hidrocon Bacau , as of 2011 for CSM Craiova , and in the Croatian 1st women's league for Draga Rijeka . In Germany they played in the first woman Bundesliga in the 2008-09 season for SK Großlehna . Like the Romanian top player Carmen Voicu-Jagodzinsky , she was a member of the Sauerland SV Hemer .

She has held the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) since November 2008 . The standards for this they achieved in February 2004 when Sozina Open in a bar , in February 2007 in the finals of the Romanian singles championship in Amara and the WGM tournament Mediterranean Flowers in March 2008 in Rijeka , where she behind the Argentinean Carolina Luján took second place . Her Elo rating is 2139 (as of October 2018), which puts her in 14th place in the Romanian Elo ranking for women. Iulia-Ionela Ionic's highest rating to date was 2295 in April 2004.

Game example

At the Astral Open in Bucharest in April 2001, she managed to win against Vlad-Cristian Jianu, who was almost 200 Elo points stronger at the time, with a mate combination , sacrificing a tower and a runner :

1. e2 – e4 c7 – c5 2. Ng1 – f3 Nb8 – c6 3. d2 – d4 c5xd4 4. Nf3xd4 Ng8 – f6 5. Nb1 – c3 e7 – e5 6. Nd4 – b5 d7 – b6 7. Bc1 – g5 a7 –A6 8. Nb5 – a3 b7 – b5 9. Nc3 – d5 Bf8 – e7 10. Bg5xNf6 Be7xBf6 11. c2 – c3 0–0 12. Sa3 – c2 Ra8 – b8 13. h2 – h4 Bf6 – e7 14. Nc2– e3 Bc8 – e6 15. g2 – g3 Qd8 – c7 16. Qd1 – d2 Rf8 – c8 17. Re1 – d1 Be7 – d8 18. Bf1 – g2 Sc6 – e7 19. 0–0 Rc8 – c5 20. Nd5 – b4 Rb8 –B6 21. Nb4 – d3 Rc5 – c7 22. f2 – f4 e5xf4 23. Nd3xf4 Rc7 – c5 24. Qd2 – d4 Bd8 – c7 25.Nf4xLe6 Qd7xSe6 26. Ne3 – d5 Ne7xSd5 27. e4xSd5 De6 – d7 28. Kg1– h2 Rb6-b8 29. Bg2-h3 Qd7-d8

Iulia-Ionela Ionicǎ -
Vlad Cristian Jianu

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Position after 29.… Qd7 – d8

30. Rf1xf7 Kg8xRf7 31. Bh3 – e6 + Kf7 – g6 32. Qd4 – f4 Qd8 – e7 33. Be6-Bf7 +

Jianu gave up. The only possible move was the capture of the check-giving white bishop on f7 with his queen , which would have resulted in an immediate mate with Qf4 – g5 ++: the black king no longer has an escape square due to the blockade of the f7 square by his own queen.

Web links

• Iulia-Ionela Ionicǎ at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Iulia-Ionela Ionicǎ on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of the Romanian championships (Romanian)
2. ↑ WGM application (English)
3. ↑ Mediterranean Flowers 2008 ( Memento of March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
4. ↑ Game on chessgames.com to replay (English)