Natalja Andrejewna Pogonina

Natalja Pogonina, Warsaw 2013
Association	Russia
Born	March 9, 1985 Vladivostok
title	International Women's Champion (2002) Women's Grandmaster (2004)
Current  Elo rating	2475 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2508 (July 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Natalja Andrejewna Pogonina ( Russian: Наталья Андреевна Погонина ; born March 9, 1985 in Vladivostok ) is a Russian chess player .

Life

Natalja Pogonina during the international match between Russia and PR China, 2008

She learned to play chess from her grandfather at the age of five. Her first trainer until 1998 was Leonid Ganjikin. From 1998 to 2010 she was trained by the international master Pawel Lobach (* 1960). She has been seconded since 2008 by the Macedonian Grand Master Vladimir Georgiev and IM Wladislaw Axelrod . She studied law at the State Law Academy in Saratov and graduated in 2008.

In April 2016, she received the honorary title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia .

successes

Natalia Pogonina

Single successes

In 1998 she won the Russian U16 girls' championship. In 2000 she became European Youth Champion U16 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) . In January 2002 she won the Hopes 5 tournament in Lviv by 2.5 points. In April 2002 she was the Russian U18 girls champion in Dagomys . At the Russian U20 women's championship in March 2003 in Essentuky in the North Caucasus , she was second behind Yekaterina Korbut, tied on points . In April 2003 she was tied for second at the Russian U18 girls' championship in Dagomys. In September 2003 in Budva she became European Youth Champion in the U18 female age group. At the U18 World Youth Championship for women in October 2003 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) she was second behind Nana Dsagnidze . At the Russian U20 women's championship in Samara in March 2004, she shared first place with Jekaterina Korbut. At the women's world championship in Elista in May 2004 , she lost 0.5: 1.5 against Marie Sebag in the first round . She won the Russian Women's U20 Championship by half a point in March 2005 in Nojabrsk . In December 2005 she won the 3rd Jelisaveta Bykowa Memorial in Vladimir . In August 2007 she won the Lyudmila Rudenko Memorial in Saint Petersburg by 1.5 points. In February 2009 she won the women's tournament of the Moscow Open with eight points from nine games and one point ahead. At the European Women's Championships in March 2009 in Budva, she was third. In 2012 she won the Russian Women's Championship in Moscow with 6.5 points from 9 games, and in 2018 in Satka with 9 out of 12.

At the knockout women's World Cup 2015 in Sochi , Pogonina reached the final, but lost there against Marija Musychuk with 1.5: 2.5.

Team successes

National team

For the Russian women's national team, she played in the international matches against the People's Republic of China in Moscow in 2004 and in Ningbo in 2008 . She took part in the women's chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008 (as reserve player), in 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk (on the first board of the second team), in 2012 in Istanbul (as reserve player) and in 2014 in Tromsø (as reserve player). She won with the team in 2012 and 2014 and also achieved the best individual result of the reserve players in 2012. 2011, 2013 and 2015 she participated in the World Team Championship part of women. In 2011 she reached second place both with the team and in the individual ranking of the reserve players, in 2013 she took third place both with the team and in the individual ranking of the third board, and in 2015 she came third both with the team and in the individual ranking Brett in second place. Pogonina also took part in the European Women's Team Championships in 2011 in Porto Carras and in 2013 in Warsaw . In 2011 she won both with the team and in the individual ranking of the reserve players, in 2013 she finished second with the team and third in the individual ranking on the third board.

Club teams

Natalja Pogonina has participated in the women's European Club Cup nine times since 2005 . In 2005 she represented Platinum Krasnoyarsk , in 2006 she played for Ekonimist SGSEU Saratov . In 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012 she played for AVS Krasnoturjinsk , in 2013, 2014 and 2015 for Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk . In the team classification she won in 2011, came second in 2007 and 2013 and third in 2015, in the individual classification she achieved three second places (2007 and 2012 on the fourth, 2013 on the second board) and third places (2006 on the first, 2011 on the fourth and 2014 on the second board). In 2013 and 2014 she won the Russian women's team championship with Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk . Pogonina also plays in the Montenegrin women's league.

Rating

Natalja Pogonina has held the title of International Women's Master (WIM) since November 2002 and the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) since July 2004 . She reached the norms for the WGM title at the Russian women's individual championship in 2002, the International Festival 2003 in Serpukhov and the Aeroflot Open 2004 in Moscow. Pogonina met standards for the title of International Master at the 2012 European Women's Championships in Gaziantep and at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014 . In February 2015, she was eighth in the Russian women's rankings and 38th in the world's women's rankings.

Web links

Commons : Natalja Pogonina  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Natalja Andrejewna Pogonina on chessgames.com (English)
• Homepage Natalja Pogoninas (English and Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview on the website of Alexandra Kostenjuk from May 11, 2009 (English)
2. ^ Jörg Schulz: European Championship in Montenegro . JugendSchach issue 8/2003, pp. 9–11 (report, tables and photos).
3. ↑ Natalja Pogonina's results in the competitions Russia against China on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Natalja Pogonina's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Natalja Pogonina's results at the Women's Team World Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Natalja Pogonina's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Natalja Pogonina's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ WGM application to FIDE (English)
9. ↑ IM standards Natalja Pogoninas at FIDE (English)