2013 Brno Open

The 2013 Brno (Czech Republic) Open took place November 16 - 23, 2013.  Here are the final standings - a chess femme took clear first place. I saw this reported at The Week in Chess through the early rounds, tournament results at Chess-Results dot com. 

Konečné pořadí po 9 kolech

Poř.	St.č.			Jméno	Typ	pohlaví	Skup.	FED	RtgFIDE	RtgN	Body	PH 1	PH 2	PH 3	K	rtg+/-
1	6		WIM	Abdumalik Zhansaya	U16	w	F	KAZ	2311	0	7.5	40.5	51.5	6	15	30.3
2	2		FM	Kantans Toms			F	LAT	2412	0	6.5	40.5	52.5	5	10	-3.8
3	3		FM	Kojima Shinya			F	JPN	2364	0	6.5	40.0	51.5	5	15	-2.7
4	7		FM	Burdalev Kirill			F	UKR	2280	0	6.5	39.5	51.0	5	15	10.6
5	12		WIM	Semenova Elena		w	F	RUS	2177	0	6.5	39.0	49.0	6	15	18.6
6	1		IM	Plat Vojtech			F	CZE	2472	0	6.5	37.5	49.5	5	10	-1.7
7	5		IM	Strebkovs Andrejs			F	LAT	2324	0	6.5	37.5	47.0	4	10	-4.0
8	14			Tsenov Tsvetoslav			F	BUL	2134	0	6.5	32.0	41.5	5	15	15.9
9	13			Kearns Christopher			F	GER	2158	0	6.0	39.0	49.0	5	15	15.6
10	17			Tesar Jan			F	CZE	2072	0	6.0	36.0	45.5	5	15	13.8
11	10			Golcman Evgeny	S60		F	RUS	2209	0	6.0	32.0	41.5	5	15	-17.3
12	11			Blahynka Martin	U16		F	CZE	2188	0	5.5	40.5	51.5	3	15	2.7
13	15			Ben-Natan Yigal			F	ISR	2084	0	5.5	36.5	47.5	4	15	6.0
	35			Chan Naruna		w	F	RUS	1848	0	5.5	36.5	47.5	4	15	45.3
15	16			Grove Michael			F	SCO	2078	0	5.5	36.0	46.5	5	15	5.1
16	9		FM	Vorobyov Yrij	S60		F	UKR	2226	0	5.5	35.5	46.0	4	15	-26.1
17	4		IM	Chudinovskikh Alexander M.			F	RUS	2334	0	5.5	34.0	43.5	5	10	-22.4
18	19		FM	Spodny Josef	S60		F	CZE	2014	0	5.5	30.0	38.5	2	15	-5.1
19	8		IM	Piankov Evgenij	S60		F	UKR	2264	0	5.0	42.0	53.5	4	10	-4.9
20	20			Kotva Milan	S60		F	CZE	1996	0	5.0	34.0	43.0	4	15	-6.3
21	37			Kreyssig Bruno	U16		F	GER	1837	0	5.0	33.5	43.5	4	15	22.6
22	21			Tabola Marcin			F	POL	1990	0	5.0	33.5	40.5	3	15	0.4
23	44			Kosina Vladimir	S60		F	CZE	1775	0	5.0	32.0	41.0	3	15	17.5
24	22			Vesely Jaromir			F	CZE	1952	0	5.0	32.0	40.5	3	15	-26.3
25	18			Bakalar Jan	S60		F	SVK	2048	0	5.0	31.5	41.0	4	15	-15.3
	34			Fowler David			F	SCO	1859	0	5.0	31.5	41.0	4	15	7.8
27	45			Zikan Karel	S60		F	CZE	1774	0	5.0	29.5	36.5	3	15	17.4
28	32			Veznik Michael			F	CZE	1874	0	4.5	36.5	46.5	4	15	3.3
29	31			Saroun Radek			F	CZE	1875	0	4.5	36.5	46.0	3	15	1.4
30	33			Simo Marian	U16		F	SVK	1873	0	4.5	35.5	45.0	2	15	0.0
31	27			Kopecek Ivan	S60		F	CZE	1912	0	4.5	35.0	45.0	4	15	12.1
32	36			Kucera Jan			F	CZE	1844	0	4.5	34.5	44.0	2	30	11.7
33	28			Pultorak Jan	U16		F	POL	1908	0	4.5	33.0	41.0	4	15	-0.8
34	23			Lintner Felix			F	AUT	1943	0	4.5	32.0	41.5	3	30	-36.6
35	26			Lages Karl-Heinz			F	GER	1917	0	4.5	30.5	39.0	3	30	0.0
36	42			Chapman Nigel			F	SCO	1789	0	4.5	30.5	38.5	3	15	-0.2
37	57			Oglaza Oskar	U16		F	POL	1572	0	4.5	29.5	38.0	3	15	42.8
38	66			Vanicek Lukas			N	CZE	0	1692	4.5	29.5	37.0	4
39	60			Glacner Karel	S60		F	CZE	1554	0	4.5	26.0	33.0	4	15	34.7
40	39			Volna Lukas	U16		F	SVK	1815	0	4.0	33.5	44.0	2	15	18.5
41	24			Stanek Stanislav			F	CZE	1941	0	4.0	33.0	43.5	3	15	-17.7
42	25			Al-Dhabbi Fares			F	YEM	1939	0	4.0	33.0	42.0	3	15	-21.3
43	40			Hrdlicka Vladan			F	CZE	1805	0	4.0	32.0	42.5	4	30	-13.2
44	69			Kaplan Milan			*	CZE	0	1250	4.0	31.0	39.0	3
45	41			Stary Vladimir			F	CZE	1794	0	4.0	30.0	39.0	2	15	-12.0
46	48			Veselsky Jan			A	CZE	1695	0	4.0	28.5	37.5	3	15	3.2
47	51			Baraniuk Andrej	S60		F	UKR	1673	0	4.0	27.0	35.5	3	15	9.3
48	43			Feldvabl Vilem	S60		F	CZE	1779	0	4.0	26.0	34.0	3	15	-7.5
49	50			Romanek Zdenek			F	CZE	1675	0	4.0	26.0	33.5	4	15	-4.3
50	67			Kan Vojtech			N	CZE	0	1664	4.0	25.5	31.5	3
51	53			Rezny Frantisek			F	CZE	1623	0	4.0	22.0	28.5	2	15	-13.5
52	29			Paulik Martin			F	CZE	1903	0	3.5	28.5	38.0	3	15	-11.4
53	58			Bata Jiri			F	CZE	1568	0	3.5	28.5	36.5	3	30	21.6
54	47			Doskar Miloslav	S60		F	CZE	1743	0	3.0	32.0	40.5	3	15	-4.8
55	38			Zejda Karel	S60		F	CZE	1825	0	3.0	30.0	37.5	3	15	-32.0
56	64			Klimina Nina	S60	w	F	RUS	1345	0	3.0	29.0	37.5	3	30	63.6
57	54			Potapova Tatiana		w	F	RUS	1622	0	3.0	28.0	36.0	2	15	9.4
58	52			Kaeding Wolfgang	S60		F	GER	1659	0	3.0	27.5	35.5	2	30	-27.9
59	62			Koci Tereza	U16	w	F	CZE	1439	0	3.0	25.0	31.0	3	15	25.0
60	68			Kaeding Dieter	S60		*	GER	0	1250	3.0	23.0	29.5	2
61	59			Mach Michal			F	CZE	1559	0	3.0	22.0	28.5	0	15	-0.9
62	65			Kacalek Tomas			N	CZE	0	1760	2.5	30.0	38.0	2
63	55			Sojka Oldrich	S60		F	CZE	1607	0	2.5	27.5	34.5	1	15	0.0
64	46			Hruby Vaclav	S60		F	CZE	1746	0	2.5	24.0	32.0	1	15	-47.8
65	61			Zlamal Zdenek	S60		F	CZE	1518	0	2.5	23.0	29.5	0	15	-8.9
66	63			Richterova Julie	U16	w	F	CZE	1439	0	2.5	21.5	28.0	1	15	0.6
67	56			Vlajkov Milenko	S60		F	GER	1600	0	2.0	21.5	28.5	0	30	-74.1
68	30			Horyna Josef	S60		F	CZE	1878	0	1.0	25.5	33.0	1	15	0.0
69	49			Strnad Jiri	S60		F	CZE	1683	0	1.0	24.0	32.5	1	30	-50.7

Poznámka:
Pomocné hodnocení1: Buchholz Tie-Breaks (variabel with parameter)
Pomocné hodnocení2: Buchholz Tie-Breaks (variabel with parameter)
Pomocné hodnocení3: The greater number of victories

12-Year Old Girl Applies for FIDE WGM Title

From Radio Free Europe Broadcast

No Duffer: Kazakh Teen Stakes Claim To Being Chess World's Youngest Grandmaster
June 27, 2012

Zhansaya Abdimalik in her hometown of Almaty on June 27

Kazakhstan's chess body has posited a case for making a 12-year-old Kazakh schoolgirl the youngest female grandmaster in the world.

Zhansaya Abdimalik, sporting a baseball cap and the composure of a veteran, was introduced to the wider public by the deputy head of the Kazakh Chess Federation on June 27.

The official, Erkin Israilov, said an application on Abdimalik's behalf would be sent to the World Chess Federation (FIDE) later this week, according to RFE/RL's Kazakh Service.

The grandmaster criteria include a rating based on relative strength in head-to-head matches and quality finishes over a series of tournaments.

Her grandmother told RFE/RL that Abdimalik earned the title with her results in tournaments in Indonesia, Russia, and Ukraine.

The title of grandmaster is bestowed for life.

Ukraine's Kateryna Lahno, who was 12 years and four months old when she was granted the title in 1992, currently holds the record for the youngest-ever female grandmaster.

It's not so long ago that women weren't even considered for such status by the male-dominated chess elite. The first female grandmaster was Georgian Nona Gaprindoshvili in 1978.

No one can accuse Kazakhstan's braided chess prodigy of failing to plan ahead.

Abdimalik told RFE/RL in an interview last year that being the youngest grandmaster was just one of her two dreams. The other was to become the youngest world champion ever (of either gender). For now, that record belongs to Hou Yifan of China, who was 16 when she won the title in 2010 (she repeated the feat in 2011).

That gives Almaty's most precocious resident nearly four years to work on her game -- an eternity to a 12-year-old.

-- Andy Heil

Youngest Yet Female IM

Story at Caspio Net

July 13, 2011
11-year old Kazakh chess player becomes international master

A three-time world chess champion, Zhansaya Abdumalik, has become an international master. The ambitious girl won a world championship, which was held in Poland, for the third time. She recently won an international tournament in Indonesia among girls under 20 years of age as well, which allowed her to obtain the title of International Master and increase her ranking.

Zhansaya Abdumalik, Three-Times World Chess Champion
«I’m closer to the international grandmaster title now, which is my goal. My opponents are intimidated by me. Children often look at the ranking and your title. Some girls have a stomach ache or a headache. So they give up and just leave.»

The Kazakh chess princess can get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest grandmaster, beating the result of a girl from Egypt, who became an international master at the age of 11 years and 7 months. Zhansaya has a 2-month lead over her. The Kazakh-British Technical University awarded the 11-year old champion an educational grant thanks to which Zhansaya will be able to study at KBTU after school. The university will also sponsor the chess player’s trips to tournaments. Zhansaya dreams of becoming a grandmaster at the age of 12. The girl will soon return to the Singapore Chess Academy, where she received an annual educational grant, and in November she will take part in the World Youth Chess Championship in Brazil.

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About those championship titles:

As far as I gathered from her FIDE record, she won:

Under 11 Girls title in the 2010 (6th) World School Chess Championships (July, 2010), by coming in first place with 4.0/4 in a field of 12 players -- not sure how that played out since she only faced 4 opponents.  Anyway, you can find the information here. 

I can't find any record that she won two other world champion titles.  Also, I was always under the impression that to be an IM, one had to have an ELO (rating) of at least 2400?  Zhansaya's current ELO is 2030.  So - remains to be see if the facts listed in this article can be substantiated.  But congratulations to the young lady!  She has a plan, she has talent, she's not afraid of mixing it up with the boys OTB -- if she can get training and backing, who knows?