Ekaterina Alexandrovna Lagno

Jekaterina Lagno, 2013
Association	Ukraine (until 2014) Russia (since 2014)
Born	December 27, 1989 Lviv
title	International Master of Women (2001) Grand Master of Women (2003) International Master (2003) Grand Master (2007)
Current  Elo rating	2546 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2560 (December 2018)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Kateryna Lagno ( Ukrainian Катерина Олександрівна Лагно , Russian Екатерина Александровна Лагно , scientific. Transliteration Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lahno , the World Chess Federation FIDE Kateryna Lagno * 27. December 1989 in Lviv ) is a Ukrainian - Russian chess player , since July 2014 Russian for the Chess Federation plays. In 2018 she became world champion blitz chess in Saint Petersburg .

Life and accomplishments

She learned to play chess when she was four years old. When she was eight she was U10 girls' world champion in Oropesa del Mar , and when she was nine she was a master candidate. In 2001 she scored a draw in blitz chess against two-time vice world champion Viktor Kortschnoi .

On April 29, 2002, at the age of 12 years, 4 months and 2 days, she became the youngest women grandmaster to date (WGM). Less than a year later she became an International Master ; In 2003 at a grandmaster tournament in Kramatorsk , she achieved her first grandmaster standard . She achieved the second GM standard in July 2005 when she won the European Women's Championship in Chișinău , making her the youngest ever European champion . At the end of July 2006 she achieved the third GM norm by winning the North Urals Cup , a very strong women's chess tournament in Krasnoturjinsk . She was only awarded the GM title a year later in June 2007. In December 2006 she won a competition against the Indian talent Parimarjan Negi in New Delhi , in which six tournament, rapid and blitz games were played, with 11: 7. In 2008 she won the European Women's Championship for the second time in Plovdiv . In September 2010 she won the Women's Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow . In April 2014 she became the women's rapid chess world champion in Khanty-Mansiysk . She scored 10.5 points from 15 rounds and relegated the equal-point Alexandra Kostenjuk to 2nd place thanks to a better evaluation . In June 2015 she was awarded the title of Grand Master of Russia by the Russian Ministry of Sports .

At the 2018 women's chess world championship , which was played in knockout mode, she was defeated in the final by the reigning world champion Ju Wenjun in the tie-break . In December 2018 she won in St. Petersburg , the Women's World Cup in speed chess and repeated this success the following year in Moscow.

Her highest ranking in the FIDE world rankings for women was 5th from September 2011 to January 2012. Lagno was married to the French chess journalist and grandmaster Robert Fontaine . Lagno received Russian citizenship on July 21, 2014. She is married to the Russian grandmaster Alexander Grishchuk and has four children.

Team chess

Ukraine (Jekaterina Lagno, Maria Muzychuk, Natalja Schukowa and Anna Uschenina ) - China, Chess Olympiad 2012 in Istanbul (round 3).

National team

With the Ukrainian women's selection , she took part in five Chess Olympiads from the 2004 to 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul . In 2006 in Turin she won the gold medal with the team and a silver medal for her result on board 2.

From 2005 to 2013 Lagno took part in five team European championships for women and in 2013 was European team champion.

In addition, Kateryna Lagno won the women's team championship with Ukraine in 2013 , she was also part of the Ukrainian selection at this tournament in 2007.

The Chess Olympiad 2014 Women in Tromsø won Lagno with Russia.

Club chess

Lagno played in the Bundesliga chess league from 2010 to 2012 for Sportfreunde Katernberg . In France she played in the top division, the Top 16 , in the 2009/10 season for Association Cannes-Echecs . At the European Club Cup Women Kateryna Lagno took ten times and won the competition in 2009 with Spartak Vidnoye and 2011 AVS Krasnoturyinsk . In the Chinese team championship she played for Wuxi in 2012 and for Chengdu in 2017 and 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Kateryna Lahno  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Jekaterina Alexandrovna Lagno on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vladimir Fedorov: King Salman World Blitz Championship 2018 Women . Swiss manager. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
2. ^ Lagno new World Rapid Champion , Chessbase.com, April 25, 2014.
3. ^ Adrian Mihalčišin : The Lagno case in Schach 8/2014, page 55 ff.
4. ↑ Финал: Лагно - Цзюй Вэньцзюнь | chess-news.ru. November 17, 2018, accessed August 22, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Jekaterina Lagnos results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Kateryna Lagnos results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Jekaterina Lagnos results at the women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Results of the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad on chess-results.com
9. ↑ Kateryna Lagnos results at the European Club Cup women on olimpbase.org