Maria Musychuk

Marija Musychuk, Lviv 2016
Association	Ukraine
Born	September 21, 1992 Stryi
title	International Master of Women (2005) Grand Master of Women (2007) International Master (2008) Grand Master (2015)
world champion	2015-2016
Current  Elo rating	2544 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2563 (March 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Marija Musytschuk ( Ukrainian Марія Музичук ; in the West mostly reproduced according to the English transcription as Maria Muzychuk , German also Maria Musitschuk ; born September 21, 1992 in Stryj ) is a Ukrainian chess player . She has been the Women's Grand Master (WGM) since 2007 , received the FIDE title International Master (IM) in 2008 and won the Women's World Championship in 2015, which also made her Grand Master (GM).

Life

The Musychuk sisters on a Ukrainian postage stamp (2015)

Marija Musychuk (2013)

Since 2001, Marija Musytschuk has represented Ukraine at the World Championships and European Youth Championships for girls of various ages, winning nine medals. In 2002 she became European U10 female champion. In 2008 at the Junior World Championships in Gaziantep she was second. In November 2010 she was 15th in the world rankings for girls.

Her older sister Anna Musychuk is also a chess player.

Chess career

Success in her youth

• 2001 - Silver at the U10 Women's World Championship in Oropesa del Mar
• 2001 - Bronze at the U10 European Championship for women in Kallithea
• 2002 - Gold at the European U10 female championship in Peñíscola
• 2004 - Bronze at the U12 Women's World Championships in Heraklion
• 2005 - Bronze at the U14 female world championship in Belfort
• 2006 - Silver at the U14 Women's World Championships in Batumi
• 2006 - Bronze at the European U14 female championship in Herceg Novi
• 2007 - Silver at the European U16 Championship for women in Šibenik
• 2008 - Silver at the U20 Women's World Cup in Gaziantep

She fulfilled the standards for both the WGM title and the IM title in April 2006 at the European Women's Championship in Kuşadası and the Serbian Women's Team Championship in 2007. Other individual successes include a second place in Lviv and the 2006 championship Ukraine under 20 years, second in Wroclaw in 2007 and 2008 the championship of Ukraine under 20 years. As of November 2015, she is in fifth place in the world rankings for women and leads the Ukrainian rankings for women.

World Championship for Women

In 2010 she came under the last 16 of the women's world championship , then lost to the Indian D. Harika in the playoff after a tiebreak in the regular match. In 2012 she also reached the round of 16 and was eliminated from the Chinese Zhao Xue .

At the Knock-Out World Championship 2015 in Sochi , she reached the final for the first time, after she had prevailed in the quarter-finals against the number 1 seeded tournament favorite K. Humpy . In the final she defeated the Russian Natalja Pogonina with 2.5: 1.5 and became world champion. Here is the crucial second game.

2nd game

Musychuk – Pogonina, game 2

	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

End position after 58th Rg1

Musychuk – Pogonina 1-0

Sochi, April 3, 2015

Spanish Match ( Closed Defense ), C95

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0–0 b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. Re1 d6 8. c3 0–0 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. a4 Bb7 12. Nbd2 c5 13. d5 c4 14. Bc2 Nc5 15. Nf1 Re8 16. Ng3 g6 17. Be3 Qc7 18. Nd2 Bf8 19. De2 Nfd7 20. f3 Nb6 21. a5 Nbd7 22. Nh1 Be7 23. g4 Qd8 24. Qf2 Bh4 25.Ng3 Rc8 26.Kg2 Nf8 27.Rf1 Bg5 28.f4 ​​exf4 29.Bxf4 Rc7 30.Bxg5 Qxg5 31.Nf3 De7 32.Nd4 De5 33.h4 h6 34.Qd2 Bc8 35.Nc6 Qg7 36.Qf4 Rd7 37. Rf2 Bb7 38.Nd4 Re5 39.Nf3 Re8 40. g5 h5 41.Nd4 De5 42. Qd2 Rc7 43.Raf1 Tee7 44.Rf6 Ted7 45.R6f4 b4 46.Nf3 Qg7 47. cxb4 Nd3 48.Rf6 Nh7 49.Nd4 Nxf6 50. gxf6 Qf8 51.Ba4 Ne5 52.Bxd7 Rxd7 53.Nf3 Ng4 54.Nxh5 gxh5 55. Qg5 + Kh8 56. Qxh5 + Nh6 57. Kh2 Qg8 58.Rg1 1: 0

To defend her title, she competed in a duel over ten games and possible tiebreaks against Hou Yifan in March 2016 . After the ninth game, the competition was decided 6: 3 in favor of Hou Yifan. In order to make the preparation more difficult for her opponent , the games of Musytschuk at the national championship of Ukraine 2015, in which she came in 10th place with 4 points out of 11 games, were initially not published.

National team

With the Ukrainian women's team, Marija Musytschuk took part in the 2010 , 2012 and 2014 Chess Olympiads . She achieved third place with the team in 2012 and 2014, in the individual ranking she achieved the best result of all reserve players in 2010 and the second best result on the second board in 2012. She also took part in the women's team championships in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 and won them with the team in 2013. In 2009 she reached third place with the team, in the individual ranking she achieved the second best result on the third board in 2013 and the third best result on the second board in 2015. At team European Championships women she took in 2011 in part, 2013, 2015. In 2011 she achieved the second best result of the reserve players, in 2013 she won with the team and at the same time achieved the best individual result on the third board, in 2015 she reached second place with the team and won the individual ranking on the first board.

societies

Musychuk won the Ukrainian women's team championship in 2007 with Lviv .

In the German women's Bundesliga, Marija Musytschuk has been playing for OSG Baden-Baden since 2009 and won the German women's team championship in 2011 , 2013 , 2015 and 2018 . In the Chinese Team Championship, she played for Qinhuangdao Evening News in 2013 and for Hebei Sports Lottery in 2017 . At the European Club Cup Women Musytschuk took three times with AVS Krasnoturinsk and won this 2011th

Web links

Commons : Marija Musytschuk  - Collection of Images

• DWZ index card from Marija Musytschuk on the German Chess Federation
• Individual Calculations - Muzychuk, Mariya (UKR) at FIDE
• Replayable chess games by Marija Musytschuk on 365Chess.com (English)
• Chess Blitz: Mariya Muzychuk - Kosteniuk video on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jörg Schulz: European Championship U10-U18 . JugendSchach edition 9/2002, pp. 4–14 (report, tables, photos and games).
2. ↑ Youth World Championship U10 to U18, 2001 in Oropesa del Mar / Spain on TeleSchess (tables, photos, reports and games)
3. ↑ European Youth Championship U10 to U18, 2001 in Kallithea / Greece on TeleSchess (tables, photos, reports and games)
4. ↑ WGM application to FIDE (English)
5. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
6. ↑ Secret Championship in Ukraine , Chessbase.com, April 12, 2015.
7. ↑ Marija Musytschuk's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Marija Musytschuk's results at the Women's World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Marija Musytschuk's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Marija Musytschuk's results at Ukrainian women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ↑ Marija Musytschuk's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)