Anna Styazhkina

Anna Styazhkina
Styazhkina at the European Youth Chess Championship, 2011
Full nameAnna Vyacheslavovna Styazhkina
CountryRussia
Born (1997-06-05) 5 June 1997 (age 27)
TitleWoman International Master (2013)
Peak rating2329 (July 2016)

Anna Vyacheslavovna Styazhkina (Russian: Анна Вячеславовна Стяжкина; born 5 June 1997) is a Russian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2013 and 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]

Chess career

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 2007 European U10 Girls' Championship and 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 19 August 2015.
  2. ^ "World Youth Championships 2012 - U16 Girls". Chess-Results. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. ^ "World Youth Chess Championship 2009 (U12G)". Chess-Results. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  4. ^ "World Youth Chess Championship - U 14 Girls". Chess-Results. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  5. ^ "European Youth Chess Championship 2008 - Girls U12". Chess-Results. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  6. ^ "23rd European Youth Chess Championship 2013 - Girls U16". Chess-Results. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  7. ^ "European Youth Chess Championship Batumi 2010 - Girls Under 14". Chess-Results. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  8. ^ "24th European Youth Chess Championship 2014 U18 Girls". Chess-Results. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  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. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  12. ^ Bystrov, Sergey (23 January 2006). "Chess family". bs-chess.com. Retrieved 19 August 2015.


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