Ekaterina Valentinovna Kovalevskaya

Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Heraklion 2007
Association	Russia
Born	April 17, 1974 Rostov-on-Don , Soviet Union
title	International Master of Women (1994) Grand Master of Women (1998) International Master (2004)
Current  Elo rating	2384 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating	2507 (July 2001)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Yekaterina Walentinowna Kowalewskaja ( Russian Екатерина Валентиновна Ковалевская ; born April 17, 1974 in Rostov-on-Don ) is a Russian chess player .

chess

Jekaterina Kowalewskaja was taught chess in the Sports School No. 1 in Rostov-on-Don and in the All-Russia Chess Grandmasters School (ACGS).

Individual championships

In 1994 and 2000, Yekaterina Kovalevskaya won the Russian women's individual championship in Elista . In 2000 she was in Batumi behind Natalja Schukowa second in the European Women's Championship and reached the semi-finals of the Women's World Championship in New Delhi , where she was eliminated against Xie Jun , who later became world champion in this tournament. In the following European Women's Championship in Warsaw in 2002 , she was again second, this time behind Almira Scripcenco . At the 2004 Women's World Chess Championship in Elista, she finished second behind Antoaneta Stefanowa and was awarded the title of International Master (IM) with simultaneous grandmaster norm (GM). Her second at the 2006 Women's World Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg , where she was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Xu Yuhua , was Alexander Galkin .

National team

She was very successful at the Chess Olympiads . She took part a total of six times for the Russian women's national team, the first time in 1994 in Moscow on the first reserve board. In 1998 in Elista she achieved team silver on the second board and an individual bronze medal for her result of 9 out of 12. In 2000 in Istanbul she achieved team bronze, 2002 in Bled on top board team silver , 2004 in Calvià on third board team bronze and 2006 in Turin first Reserve board again team silver.

In 2005 she played on board three of the Russian national team in Gothenburg when she won the bronze medal at the European women's team championship , in 2007 she won the competition with the Russian women's team. In 2007 she took part in the women's team world championship in Yekaterinburg . The Russian national team won the silver medal with her while she received two gold medals: once for her score of 6.5 out of 7 on the fourth board and for her Elo performance of 2706. At the 2009 Women 's World Championships in Ningbo , she achieved the Russian women's national team again finished second.

Club teams

She played in Russian (for Don-Sdjuschor Rostov-on-Don , Politechnik Nizhny Tagil and ShSM Moscow ), Croatian, British (in the 2004/05 season for master Wood Green 1 ), Montenegrin (for T-com Podgorica ) and Chinese (in the 2008 season for Wuxi Tiancheng Real Estate ) 1st division. In the German women's Bundesliga she plays for OSG Baden-Baden , with which she won the championship in 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2008 , 2009 , 2015 , 2016 and 2018 .

At the European Club Cup Women Kovalevskaya participated since 1996 13 times. In the team competition she won in 1999 with Rudenko School Cherson , reached second place in 2000 with Michail Tschigorn Saint Petersburg and in 2005 with Southern Ural Chelyabinsk and in 1996 with Empils Rostov-on-Don , in 2008 with T-com Podgorica , in 2013 and 2014 with ShSM Moscow in third place. In the individual ranking, she achieved the best result on the first board in 2000 , on the second board in 2002 (playing for SC Baden-Oos ) and on the fourth board in 2008, the second-best result on the second board in 1999 and on the first in 2003, on the third in 2007, on the fourth in 2009 The third best result on the third board in 2012 and 2013.

Title and rating

She has held the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM) since 1998 and that of International Master (IM) since 2004. With her best Elo rating to date of 2507, she was seventh in the women's world rankings in July 2001.

Web links

Commons : Jekaterina Kovalevskaya  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Jekaterina Walentinovna Kovalevskaya on chessgames.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview ( memento of August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) with Alexander Nikolajewitsch Pantschenko (English)
2. ↑ Yekaterina Kowalewskaja's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Yekaterina Kowalewskaja's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Yekaterina Kowalewskaja's results at the women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Jekaterina Kowalewskaja's results in the Russian team championship on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Jekaterina Kowalewskaja's results at European Club Cups for women on olimpbase.org (English)