FIDE Student Chess Magazine FSM075s_A4-en_1009_043509

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1 FIDE-CiS FSM Magazine 075sFIDE Chess in Schools

If you are attending a school in which you

learn chess, you may be revising now for

your end of year chess exam.

If that is the case, as with children in

Armenia, among others, then we wish you

the very best of luck (and the energy to

work hard).

It is a good idea to adjust the pieces ontheir suares before you start a game.

!emember, first, to make sure that the

board is the right way round and the

pieces are on the correct suares.

If the game has begun, remember to say

jadoube before touching them.

"ne way to prepare for your games. #ou$ifan pictured (yifanhou.net) meditating.

In this issue%

& #"' $ifan orld *hampion

several times over

+ ateryna -A/" omen0s

orld !apid *hampion

1 "lga I!$A girl with a winning

smile

2 &34+ omen0s orld 5lit6*hampionship

7 Anna 8'9$*#' omen0s

orld 5lit6 *hampion

: ;u66les

by evin "0*onnell

>he


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HOU Yifan World Champion several times over!

#ou first won the omen0s orld *hampionship title in &343. #owever, she was a world

champion long before that. In &33B she won the orld irls u43 *hampionship. In that

event in #alkidiki, reece, $ifan was undefeated, with eight wins and three draws for C.1D44.>hat gave her clear first place, half a point ahead of Iran0s 8itra #@EA9I;"'!.

#ou in &331 (photo *hess5ase)

>his position is from the game Arielle -@

5AI- F #"' $ifan in that irls0 u43. 5lack0s

move. $ou should spot this one uite

easily.

19...g5xe3+ 20.b1-d2[of course not20.d3xe3 c7xc2#] and 5lack wonrather easily, making the extra piece

count% 20...c7c4 21.d3xc4 c8xc422.d1-e1 e3f4 23.h1-g1 0-0

24.g1-g4 f4xd2+ 25.c1xd2 f8c826.e4e5 c4xc2+ 27.d2d3 b7xf3

28.g4d4 d6xe5 29.e1xe5 c2xb230.e5c5 c8e8 31.d4c4 f3e2+ 32.d3d4 e2xc4 33.d4xc4b2c2+ 34.c4xb4 e8b8+35.b4a3 c2xc5 36.a3a4 c5c3 37.a4a5 c3a3#.

>he following year, $ifan was still eligible

for the u43s. 5ut she didn0t play in theirls0 *hampionship, opting instead for the

"pen. =he almost completed a uniue

double. =he tied for first place with three

others. All four scored CD44. #"'0s tieF

break score gave her the bron6e medal.

/ext a position from her game against

5oris #GA/ in that event.

38.h3h4! [38.c7xc4 g5xg3]38...g5g4 [38...g5f6 39.!f4d5f6f8 40.c7xc4] 39.c7xe7+

[39.c7xc4 is also mate in B" 39...g4f3+ 40.h1-g1 f3xg3+ 41.g1-h1

f2h2# but the other way roundH]39...g7g8 40.e7f7+ g8h841.f7f8#


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#ou became the youngest female

randmaster in history in /ovember &33:,

gaining the title aged 4+ years, 2 months,

& days. Eudit ;olgar had set the benchmark

(41y +m &:d) in 4CC4, three years before#ou was born. In the interim, India0s

#umpy "/@!' had brought the record

down to 41y 4m &7d. #ou smashed that.

It was that same year, &33:, that $ifan

almost captured the orld omen0s title

for the first time. hat a sensation that

would have been orld *hampion at

4+(H), but it was not to be.

;laying in /alchik, a !ussian city in the

heartlands of world chess the *aucuses,

#ou fought through the first five rounds of

the knockout event, to play Alexandra

osteniuk in the final.

>he reigning champion, ' $uahua, had

been knocked out in the second round

while #"' dropped just 4.1 points beforebeating "/@!' in the semiFfinal (round

1).

osteniuk won the first game of the final

and ran out the winner by &.1F4.1.

before the final game (photo *hess5ase)

It is nice to be able to read about our

favourite players. It can help to inspire us

to improve our own chess.

>here is an excellent blog (yifanhou.net)

with lots of photos of $ifan, where you can

read about her exploits and her thoughts

and ideas. >he blog is available in two

versions @nglish and erman. >he next

picture, showing little $ifan, age 2, in

&333 is from that blog.

>he blog is unusual it is written by a

5uddhist monk from ermany who lives in=ri -anka.


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Kateryna LAGNO Womens World apid Champion

ateryna won the orld !apid. #ere she is

in a great photo by /ikol 5ochkarev fromthe official web site.

e saw some examples of her play in that

event in the last issue (


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Ola G"YA irl #ith a #innin smile and a reat re$ord

"lga during the orld !apid (photo /ikolai 5ochkarev)

"lga was second in the rand ;rix and tookthe bron6e medal in the !apid *hampionship.

#er single world title (so farH) is that of orld

irls0 u4: *hampion in &33C.

=he had got the bron6e medal the previous

year in the same u4: irls0 event. It is from

that tournament that we take this example of

"lga0s courage, fight and resourcefulness. >heposition is from the game 8aria "=*I/IA

"lga I!$A.

hite had been winning this game.

5lack fought long and hard when two

pawns down. /ow the tables were turned%

68...f3d4+ 69.c2b2 h1-h2+70.b2c1 [70.b2a1 !d4b3+

71.b1xb3 c4xb3and matesJ70...c4c3 71.f4d5+ c3d3 72.d5f4+d3e3 73.f4xh5 [73.!f4d5+ e3f3and takes on gB, winningJ 73...d4e2+

[73...h2c2+ 74.c1-d1 c2d2+75.d1-e1 (75.d1-c1 d4e2#)75...!d4f3+ 76.e1-f1 d2f2#]74.c1-c2 e2xg3+ 75.c2b3 g3xh5and hite soon resigned 76.a3a4b5xa4+ 77.b3xa4 h2xh4 78.b4b5g4g3+ 79.a4a5 g3g2 80.b5b6h5f6 81.b6b7 f6d7 82.a5b5h4h1 83.b1-b3+ e3f4 0-1.


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%&'( Womens World )lit* Championship

>here was another change round in the

finishing order of the 5lit6 *hampionship.

>his time it was Anna 8u6ychuk who tookpride of place. #ere are the top ten

finishers%

Anna also emerged as a champion egg

tapper (see p.B). =he suffered a horrible

defeat against a former orld *hampion

on the second day of the event.

Anna, hite, had the advantage, but...70.b7a8 [70.b7c8+$ 70.b7a6b1-a1+ 71.a6b7 a1-b1+ 72.b7c8+] 70...b1-b8#.

KIt was horrible. I handled the game well,

but blew it by blundering a mate in one.he final position (photo *hess5ase)

=uch strange things happen uite often in

blit6. -ook at /ana ?6agnid6eFAlexandra

osteniuk, for example.

#ere hite checked again on f2. ?o you

see something better

$es, of course... mate in one (on h:).


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Anna +,*y$h,- Womens World )lit* Champion

#ere is a nice finish by Anna in the &331

5elfort orld irls, where she won the

first (u42) of her two titles (orld irls

u&3 *hampion in &343). Anna, 5lack, to

move against 5arbara ;errusset.

At first sight, it seems that hite0s pieces

are well enough placed. #owever, too

many of them have too many jobs to doH

20...f8xf1+0-1It is hopeless% 21.e1xf1 (or 21.g1xf1g4xh2+ 22.f1-g1 d4f3+; 21.d3xf1d4xc2 22.e1-e2 g4xe3) 21...!d4xc222.d3xc2 !g4xe3.

Anna was really young when she started

to learn chess. #ere are her own words

from an article in *hess5ase about her and

her sister% Khen I was two years old I

could put the beginning position on the

board, and at three I could play chess with

all the chess rules. hen I was five I took

part in my first chess tournament

(championship of our sport school) and

won the second place. At the same age I

played in the *hampionship of -viv region

(girls '43) and managed to win the second

place.0

Anna, as do many players, likes other

sports, especially table tennis.


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Puzzles selected by FST & FM Kevin OConnell(www.kochess.com)

1 hite to play. =imple techniue.

ateryna -A/" Galentina '/I/A

orld $outh *h u43 irls, "ropesa 4CCC

2 hite to move. "verloadH

/ana ?9A/I?9@ /atalia ;""/I/A

orld $outh *h u4: irls, #alkidiki &33B

3 5lack to play.

8arie @=;"=I>" >atiana "=I/>=@GA

orld $outh *h u4& irls, *annes 4CC7

4 5lack, to play, is winning. hat0s best

/une ?A!5I/$A/ Anna 8'9$*#'

orld $outh *h u42 irls, 5elfort &331

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