Alisa Galliamova

Alissa Mikhailovna Galljamowa (Russian Алиса Михайловна Галлямова; born January 18, 1972 in Kazan ) is a Russian chess player. She grew up in a Russian- Tatar family.

She was taught Schachlich in the All-Russia Chess Grandmasters school ( ACGS ). She is since 1988 the Grand Master of the ladies ( WGM ) and since 1993 an International Master of Men (IM). Galljamowa first played for the Soviet, then for the Ukrainian and now for the Russian Chess Federation.

Achievements

In 1987 she was in Innsbruck U16 World Champion. In 1988, she won the U20 World Chess Championship in Adelaide. In the European Team Championship in 1992 in Debrecen she was playing for Ukraine, for their result of 6.5 out of 7 on the first board both a gold medal for their yield point of 92.9 percent as well as for their Elo performance of 2689 in this tournament.

Interzonal in 1993 in Jakarta, she was behind Ketevan Arachamia second. In 1997 she won the Russian Women's Championship in Elista. In the same year they should play a candidate compared fight for the world championship against the Chinese Xie Jun, but because Galljamowa not want to play the full comparison in China, Xie Jun was proclaimed the winner. After Zsuzsa Polgár did not compete at the 1999 World Cup, Galljamowa could again play against Xie Jun, but lost with 6,5:8,5. The first half was played in Kazan, the second in Shenyang. In 2000 she won the European Club Cup Agrouniverzal Belgrade club called European Women's Championship in Halle ( Saale). In the European Individual Championship 2002 in Varna ( Bulgaria), they won the bronze medal play-off. At the European Club Cup 2003 in Rethymno, Crete they had to vacate for Garry Kasparov their place in the men's team of their club Ladja Kazan, then reached but with the women's team to third place and the best score on top board with an Elo performance of 2696th In the same year had brought in Togliatti in the Russian team championship in the men's team of Kazan the championship. In the Women's World Cup 2006 in Yekaterinburg, she was Vice World Champion. She lost the final against Xu Yuhua 0,5:2,5. For the second time she was able to win in Moscow, the Russian Women's Championship in December 2009, and in November 2010 she defended her title.

Your current Elo rating is 2460 (as of January 2010). By December 2003, she was third in the women's world rankings. Their highest ever Elo rating was 2560 in July 1998.

In 1991 she married the Super Grandmaster Vasyl Ivanchuk, from whom she divorced since 2000. Galljamowa lives in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan.