Monika Soćko

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Monika Soćko, Warsaw 2013
Association PolandPoland Poland
Born March 24, 1978
Warsaw
title International Master of Women (1994)
Grand Master of Women (1995)
International Master (2002)
Grand Master (2008)
Current  Elo rating 2428 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2505 (April 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Monika Soćko (born Bobrowska ; born March 24, 1978 in Warsaw ) is a Polish chess player .

Life

She learned the game of chess from her father when she was five. Her successes in adolescence include second places in the youth world championships U10 women in 1988 and U12 women in 1990, winning the European youth championship U18 women in 1996 and a 2nd place in the European youth championships U20 women in 1997.

She won the Polish women's championship in 1995 (under her maiden name Bobrowska), in 2004, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.

At the European Women's Championships she came in 5th place in 2003 and 8th place in 2007. In 2004 and 2005 she won the Acropolis women's tournament in Athens . In September 2007 she won the international women's tournament in Baku with 7 points from 9 games. At the 2008 Women's World Cup in Nalchik , she was eliminated in the second round with 0.5-1.5 against Hoàng Thanh Trang . In August 2009 she won the Open Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø with 7 points from 9 games due to a better ranking ahead of Ray Robson , Marian Petrow and Emanuel Berg .

She has held the women's grandmaster title (WGM) since 1995, and the grandmaster title (GM) since 2008 . She fulfilled the required standards in February 2005 at the 21st Open in Cappelle-la-Grande , in September 2007 at an invitation tournament for women in Baku and in May 2008 at the Kaupthing Open in Differdange . In February 2015, she was ranked 39th in the FIDE women's world rankings and topped the Polish women's rankings. She is the wife of Grand Master Bartosz Soćko , with whom she has three children.

National team

Monika Soćko took part in the chess Olympiads in 1994 , 1996 , 1998 , 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2016 and 2018 with the Polish women's team. In 2002 she reached third place with the team and won the individual ranking on the third board, in 2016 she took second place with the team. She also took part in the women's team championships in 2007, 2015 and 2017 and the women's European team championships in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 , 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. With the team she won the European Team Championships in Gothenburg in 2005 , achieved second place in 2007 and 2011 and third place in 2013, in the individual ranking she achieved the best result on the second board in 2005 and the second-best Elo performance of all participants.

societies

In the Polish team championship Soćko played in 1997 for KSz Sido Cafe Hańcza Suwałki , 1998 and 1999 for KS Pocztowiec TP SA Poznań , 2000 to 2006 and 2008 for Polonia Warsaw , with whom she played from 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and 2006 won the championship, since 2009 she has played for the team of WASKO HetMaN Szopienice (since 2015 WASKO HETMAN Katowice), with which she won the title in 2010 , 2013 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 . The Polish women's team championship was won by Monika Soćko in 2009 and 2010 with the MKSz Rybnik with whom she participated in the women's European Club Cup in 1998 .

In the German women's league she played for the Rodewischer Schachmiezen from 1993 to 1999 , from 2000 to 2002 for the SG Heiligenhaus , in the season 2002/03 and from 2004 to 2008 for Weiß-Blau Allianz Leipzig , since 2009 she has played for the Hamburger SK . Since the 2015/16 season Soćko has been playing in Germany in general with the chess department of FC St. Pauli , initially in the Oberliga Nord, and since 2017 in the 2nd Bundesliga North . She plays for Guildford in the British Four Nations Chess League in the 2019/20 season .

She won the Russian women's team championship in 2010 with the team of the Saint Petersburg Chess Federation , with whom she also took part in the women's European Club Cup that year. Monika Soćko also played for the team of CE de Monte Carlo , with which she won the European Club Cup for women in 2007 and 2008.

Web links

Commons : Monika Soćko  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
  2. ↑ Monika Soćko's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Women team line-up with individual results - Women Poland. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women team line-up with individual results - Women Poland. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Monika Soćko's results at the Women's Team World Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Monika Soćko's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ 22nd European Team Chess Championship 2019 Women Section Team line-up with individual results Poland. In: chess-results.com. November 2, 2019, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Monika Soćko's results at Polish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Monika Soćko's results at Polish women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ a b c Monika Soćko's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Soćko, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bobrowska, Monika (maiden name); Socko, Monika (FIDE); Miroslawska, Monika (FIDE 1998)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw