Tatiana Lematschko

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Tatjana Lematschko at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Association Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union (until 1973) Bulgaria (1975 to 1982) Switzerland (from 1983)
BulgariaBulgaria 
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Born March 16, 1948
Moscow , Soviet Union
Died May 17, 2020
Zurich
title International Master of Women (1971)
Grand Master of Women (1977)
Current  Elo rating 2185 (May 2020)
Best Elo rating 2370 (January 1988)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Tatjana Lematschko (born March 16, 1948 in Moscow ; † May 17, 2020 in Zurich ) was a Bulgarian and Swiss chess player of Russian origin.

Life

Lematschko 1982 interzonal tournament in Bad Kissingen

Tatiana Lematschko learned the rules of chess from her older brother in the Soviet Union . She attended the chess section in the pioneer house of Ismajil city and took part in the Ukrainian youth championships. At the same time she trained as a track and field athlete. In 1966 she began her studies at the Central State Institute for Physical Culture in Moscow. With Burewestnik she won the team cups of the sports associations of the USSR in 1968 (playing on the girls' board) and 1971 (playing on the second women's board). In 1970 she won the first Soviet women's cup ahead of Maaja Ranniku .

She then played in Bulgaria from 1974 to 1982 and then lived in Switzerland . She won the Bulgarian women's championship five times (1974, 1975, 1978, 1979 and 1981). Because of her international success, she received the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) from FIDE in 1977 . In 1984, 1986, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 she also won the Swiss women's championship ten times .

After the 2010 Women's Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk , she no longer played a rated game.

Candidates tournaments

Several times she was with the candidates tournament for the world championship of women involved. In 1976 she reached the shared 3rd / 4th in the interzonal tournament in Rozendal (Netherlands) . Place and then lost the candidate match against Elena Akhmilovskaya . In 1979 she won the interzonal tournament in Alicante (Spain) , then lost in 1980 in Odessa in the quarter-finals against Marta Litinskaja . In 1982 she finally reached third place in the interzonal tournament in Bad Kissingen and was later defeated in 1983 in the candidate competition in Alicante against Nana Alexandria .

National team

She played the women's chess Olympiad four times for Bulgaria ( 1974 in Medellín , 1978 in Buenos Aires , 1980 in Valletta , 1982 in Lucerne ) and eleven times for Switzerland. At the 1974 Olympics in Medellin, she won the bronze medal both with the team and in the individual classification on the first board. For Switzerland she took part continuously in the Olympiads between 1984 in Thessaloniki and 1998 in Elista , later again in 2004 in Calvià , 2008 in Dresden and 2010 in Chanty-Mansiysk. Playing on the first board, she achieved the third-best individual result in 1984, the best individual result in 1986 in Dubai and the second- best individual result in 1988 in Thessaloniki. With the Swiss women's team, Lematschko also took part in the European team championships in 1992, 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007.

societies

Lematschko played in the Swiss National League A in the 1999 season for Schachfreunde Reichenstein , and in the 2002 and 2003 seasons for Sorab Basel . In the Swiss Bundesliga she had a job with Nimzowitsch Zurich in the 2000 season .

More tournaments

Tatjana Lematschko achieved significant tournament victories in 1974 in Plovdiv , 1978 in Pernik , 1980 in Băile Herculane , 1981 in Plovdiv and in the same year a second place in Budapest . The following year she managed to win another tournament in Plovdiv.

Web links

Commons : Tatjana Lematschko  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Angst: Record Swiss champion WGM Tatjana Babykin-Lematschko died at the age of 72. In: Swiss Chess Federation. May 23, 2020, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Tatjana Lematschko passes away. In: FIDE. May 24, 2020, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tatjana Lematschko's results at the team trophies of the sports associations of the USSR on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 77.
  5. ↑ Tatjana Lematschko's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Tatjana Lematschko's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lematschko, Tatiana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лемачко, Татьяна Мефодиевна (Russian); Babykin-Lematschko, Tatiana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 2020
Place of death Zurich