Some current news on chess femmes from around the internet -- I haven't had time to update Chess Femme News at Goddesschess, this will have to do for now, sorry!
Chessdom has an
interview with IM/WGM Tania Sachdev of India. Asian U14, Junior and Senior Champion, and won the national Indian Women Championship in 2006 and 2007, also being a runner up in 2008. She is also holding bronze medal from the World U12 Championship, awarded an Arjuna Award by the President of India in 2009.
WGM Monica Calzetta of Spain won the Spanish Women's Chess Championship (July 28 - August 2, 2009) with 6.0/7, and earned E800 for her efforts. Congratulations to WGM Calzetta, way to go! Calzetta was a favorite player of IM Ricardo Calvo, one of our friends at Goddesschess, who passed away in September, 2002. It's hard to believe so much time has passed, sometimes it seems like yesterday and The Chief, as he was known amongst our small group, would call me from Madrid every now and then on a Saturday afternoon and have Carmen practice a few words of English with me over the telephone, LOL! As long as WGM Calzetta continues to play chess, I will follow her career in The Chief's memory. Report at
Chessdom in English,
website in Spanish.
Chessbase has an article on
GM Monika Socko's win of the Arctic Chess Challenge (August 1 - 9, 2009), calling "it the greatest performance of her career." She looks very happy in this photo from the Tournament taken by Sven W. Nilssen. As a result of her performance (TPR 2639), Socko (POL 2449) will gain 22.6 ratings points - way to go!
Not many chess femmes participated in this event, but Katrine Tjølsen (Norway) scored a WIM norm. Of note - bragging because he's so cute and he is home-grown USA, IM Ray Robson finished in second place after tie-breaks and scored a GM norm!
You can read about the final round at the
"Chess Phantom's" blog - in English (thank you!) with lots of photographs and on-site observations. It's a lot of fun to read.
The
96th British Chess Championships were held July 26 - August 8, 2009. Two Women's titles were won by IM Jovanka Houska (ENG 2393), with 6.0/11 finishing in 26th place overall: 2009 British Womens Champion and 2009 English Womens Champion.
Some current news on chess femmes from around the internet -- I haven't had time to update Chess Femme News at Goddesschess, this will have to do for now, sorry!
Chessdom has an interview with IM/WGM Tania Sachdev of India. Asian U14, Junior and Senior Champion, and won the national Indian Women Championship in 2006 and 2007, also being a runner up in 2008. She is also holding bronze medal from the World U12 Championship, awarded an Arjuna Award by the President of India in 2009.
WGM Monica Calzetta of Spain won the Spanish Women's Chess Championship (July 28 - August 2, 2009) with 6.0/7, and earned E800 for her efforts. Congratulations to WGM Calzetta, way to go! Calzetta was a favorite player of IM Ricardo Calvo, one of our friends at Goddesschess, who passed away in September, 2002. It's hard to believe so much time has passed, sometimes it seems like yesterday and The Chief, as he was known amongst our small group, would call me from Madrid every now and then on a Saturday afternoon and have Carmen practice a few words of English with me over the telephone, LOL! As long as WGM Calzetta continues to play chess, I will follow her career in The Chief's memory. Report at Chessdom in English, website in Spanish.
Chessbase has an article on GM Monika Socko's win of the Arctic Chess Challenge (August 1 - 9, 2009), calling "it the greatest performance of her career." She looks very happy in this photo from the Tournament taken by Sven W. Nilssen. As a result of her performance (TPR 2639), Socko (POL 2449) will gain 22.6 ratings points - way to go!
Not many chess femmes participated in this event, but Katrine Tjølsen (Norway) scored a WIM norm. Of note - bragging because he's so cute and he is home-grown USA, IM Ray Robson finished in second place after tie-breaks and scored a GM norm!
You can read about the final round at the "Chess Phantom's" blog - in English (thank you!) with lots of photographs and on-site observations. It's a lot of fun to read.
The 96th British Chess Championships were held July 26 - August 8, 2009. Two Women's titles were won by IM Jovanka Houska (ENG 2393), with 6.0/11 finishing in 26th place overall: 2009 British Womens Champion and 2009 English Womens Champion.
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