Anna Styazhkina

Anna Styazhkina

Styazhkina at the European Youth Chess Championship, 2011
Country  Russia
Born (1997-07-05) 5 July 1997
Russia
Title Woman International Master (2013)
Peak rating 2318 (September 2015)

Anna Styazhkina (Russian: Анна Стяжкина; born 5 July 1997) is a Russian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She won the under 10 girls' section of the World Youth Chess Championship in 2007[1] and the under 16 girls' in 2012.[2] She was the runner-up at the World U12 Girls' Championship in 2009[3] and at the World U14 Girls' Championship in 2011.[4]

Styazhkina also won the U12 Girls' division of the European Youth Chess Championship in 2008[5] and the U16 Girls' in 2013.[6] She won silver in the 2010 European U14 Girls' Championship and bronze in the 2014 European U18 Girls' Championship.[7][8]

She played for "Peter Rook 1" team that took first place in the 2015 Russian Youth Team Championship. In this competition she also won the prize for the best female player, thanks to her 8.5/9 score and a 2485 performance rating.[9]

In 2016 she won the Women's Saint Petersburg Chess Championship.[10]

She comes from a chess family: her father Viacheslav is an International Master and Peter Svidler's first trainer,[11] and her mother Olga is a Woman Grandmaster.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "World Youth Championship 2007 (10G)". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  2. ↑ "World Youth Championships 2012 - U16 Girls". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  3. ↑ "World Youth Chess Championship 2009 (U12G)". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  4. ↑ "World Youth Chess Championship - U 14 Girls". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  5. ↑ "European Youth Chess Championship 2008 - Girls U12". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  6. ↑ "23rd European Youth Chess Championship 2013 - Girls U16". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  7. ↑ "European Youth Chess Championship Batumi 2010 - Girls Under 14". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  8. ↑ "24th European Youth Chess Championship 2014 U18 Girls". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  9. ↑ Silver, Albert (11 August 2015). "2015 Russian Youth Team continues tradition". ChessBase. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Aleksey Goganov Becomes St. Petersburg Champion". Russian Chess Federation. 2016-03-31
  11. ↑ "KC-Conference with Peter Svidler: Part 1". Crestbook. 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  12. ↑ Bystrov, Sergey (2006-01-23). "Chess family". bs-chess.com. Retrieved 2015-08-19.

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