Ekaterina Valeryevna Korbut

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Jekaterina Korbut, Heraklion 2007
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born February 9, 1985
Tashkent , Soviet Union
title International Master of Women (2001)
Grand Master of Women (2001)
International Master (2007)
Current  Elo rating 2448 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2468 (April 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jekaterina Valeryevna Korbut ( Russian Екатерина Валерьевна Корбут ; born February 9, 1985 in Tashkent ) is a Russian chess player .

Life

She learned to play chess at the age of nine and was trained by the Uzbek coach and referee Sergey Pinchuk at an early age. She moved with her family and her coach when she was 13 years old after Oryol , then to St. Petersburg , where she began a business degree. There she was trained in the club of Marat Makarov and for tournaments by IM Oleg Biriukov .

successes

Single successes

In October 2000 she was in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) at the European Youth Championship U18 women third. In March 2003 she won the Russian U20 Women's Championship, which took place in Essentuky in the North Caucasus , tied ahead of Natalja Pogonina . In December of the same year she won the Admiralteysky Tournament in Saint Petersburg. She shared first place with Natalja Pogonina at the 2004 Russian U20 championship for girls in Samara . In November 2004 she was U20 junior world champion in Kochi in South India with a result of 10.5 out of 13 ahead of Elisabeth Pähtz and the Indian Eesha Karavade . She only secured the title in the last round, but remained unbeaten for the entire tournament. She was the first Russian U20 world junior champion since 1988, when Alissa Galljamowa won that title. In December 2006 she was able to secure the Russian women's title in Gorodets .

Club teams

In the club she played for FINEK Saint Petersburg in the women's team, with whom she took part in all five events of the European Women's Club Cup from 2004 to 2008 . In 2004 in Izmir she won a silver medal both with the team and in the individual classification on the fourth board. Korbut won further individual silver medals in 2005 in Saint-Vincent on the third board and in 2007 in Kemer on the first board. Korbut has also played in the Serbian women's first division.

National team

In 2007 she was with the Russian women's national team, playing on board 3, second in the team world championship in Yekaterinburg . The European team championship in Heraklion in the same year was won by the Russian women's team with Korbut on the first reserve board, while they also received an individual silver medal for their result of 5 out of 7. At the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden , Jekaterina Korbut played on the fourth board of the Russian women's team.

Rating and title

Korbut is listed as inactive by FIDE because she did not play a rated game in autumn 2008 (her last tournament was the women's chess Olympiad in November 2008, the last change in her rating was due to the international match between China and Russia, which took place in September 2008, but was not evaluated until April 2009). With her highest rating to date of 2468 in April 2008, she was 23rd in the FIDE world rankings for women. She has held the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) since 2001 , and was named International Master (IM) in 2007. Korbut met the required standards in January 2006 at the FINEC-IM tournament in Saint Petersburg, at the Russian women's championship in December 2006 in Gorodez and at the European women's individual championship in April 2007 in Dresden.

Web links

Commons : Jekaterina Valeryevna Korbut  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jekaterina Korbut's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Elo evaluation of the 1st Serbian women's league in 2006 at FIDE (English)
  3. ↑ Jekaterina Korbut's results at the women's team championships at olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Jekaterina Korbut's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Jekaterina Korbut's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
personal data
SURNAME Korbut, Ekaterina Valeryevna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Корбут, Екатерина Валерьевна (Russian); Судоплатова, Екатерина Валерьевна; Korbut, Jekatierina (Polish transcription); Korbut, Ekaterina (English); Korboet, Jekaterina (Dutch)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Tashkent