Zhansaya Abdumalik

Zhansaya Abdumalik

Zhansaya Abdumalik at the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens, 2012.
Full name Zhansaya Danïyarqızı Abdumalik
Country  Kazakhstan
Born (2000-01-12) 12 January 2000
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Title Woman Grandmaster (2014)
FIDE rating 2390 (November 2015)
Peak rating 2411 (April 2015)

Zhansaya Danïyarqızı Abdumalik (Kazakh: Жансая Даниярқызы Әбдімәлік; born 12 January 2000) is a Kazakhstani chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and chess prodigy. She won the U8 girls' world championship in 2008 and the U12 girls' world championship in 2011.

Chess career

Abdumalik began attending a chess school, along with her older brother, at six years old and in January 2007, she won her first trophy at a national tournament.[1] In July 2008 she won the Asian girls U8 championship in Tehran.[2] At the 2008 World Youth Chess Championship she won the gold medal in the under-8 girls' section scoring 1,5 points ahead of the field. She became a titled player at the 2010 World Youth Championship in Porto Carras, where she shared 1st–2nd place, taking the silver medal on tiebreak, in the under-10 girls' division and earned the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title. In 2011, she was awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title as a result of her joint first place at the U20 girls' division of the 12th ASEAN+ Age Group Championships held in Tarakan, Indonesia.[3][4] Later that same year, as a WIM she won the world U12 girls' title in Brazil.

In September 2013, she finished runner-up in the World Junior Girls Chess Championship;[5] thanks to this achievement, she was voted the best girl under-20 player of 2013 at the 1st Annual Asian Chess Excellence Awards, held in June 2014 in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.[6] In November 2013, she won the Brno Open in Czech Republic with 7.5/9.[7] Abdumalik won the bronze medal in the Asian Women's Blitz Championship of 2014.[8] She won the bronze medal also at the 2015 World Junior Girls Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk.[9]

Abdumalik played for the Kazakhstani national team in the Women's Chess Olympiad of 2014, and in the Women's World Team Chess Championships of 2013 and 2015.[10]

Personal life

In January 2014, Anatoly Karpov visited Almaty to open the newly established Zhansaya Abdumalik Chess Academy.[11] Karpov and Abdumalik also played a four-game match after the ceremony. Karpov won both rapid games (20 minutes per player), while Abdumalik won one blitz game and the second one was drawn.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Alex Lee (June 27, 2012). "The Little Queen: Kazakh Girl Makes Chess History". Edge Magazine. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ Akbarinia, Arash (2008-07-24). "Asian Youth Championship in Teheran". ChessBase. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Eleven-year-old Kazakh gains WIM". ChessBase. December 7, 2011. Retrieved February 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ 12th ASEAN+ AGE-GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011 STANDARD CHESS - GIRLS 20. Chess-Results.com
  5. ↑ "FIDE World Junior Chess Championships 2013 Concluded". FIDE. 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2015-08-16.
  6. ↑ "1st Annual Asian Chess Excellence Awards". FIDE. 2014-06-05. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Open Brno 2013 Chess-Results
  8. ↑ Sagar Shah (2014-04-23). "13th Asian Continental with exciting battles". ChessBase. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  9. ↑ Sagar Shah (21 September 2015). "Antipov and Buksa are World Junior Champions". ChessBase. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  10. ↑ Zhansaya Abdumalik team chess record at OlimpBase.org
  11. ↑ "Anatoly Karpov opened Zhansaya Abdumalik Chess Academy". ChessDom.com. January 14, 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Anatoly Karpov loses chess game to 13 y.o. Zhansaya Abdumalik of Kazakhstan". TengriNews.kz. January 13, 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2014.

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