Ekaterina Kovalevskaya
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya Valentinovna (Russian Екатерина Валентиновна Ковалевская; born April 17, 1974 in Rostov-on- Don ) is a Russian chess player.
Chess
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya was informed Schachlich in the Sports School # 1 in Rostov-on- Don and in the All-Russia Chess Grandmasters school ( ACGS ).
Individual Championships
In the years 1994 and 2000 Ekaterina Kovalevskaya won each in Elista, the Russian woman single championship. In 2000, she was in Batumi behind Natalia Zhukova Second European Championship and reached the semi-finals in New Delhi of the Women's World Cup, where she retired against Xie Jun, the world champion in this tournament was later. In the following 2002 European Championships in Warsaw, she was again second, this time behind Almira Scripcenco. In 2004 she was in Elista World Championship Second Antoaneta Stefanova behind and was awarded the title of International Master (IM) with simultaneous Grandmaster norm (GM). Your second at the 2006 World Cup in Yekaterinburg, where they only retired in the quarterfinals against Xu Yuhua, Alexander Alexandrovich Galkin was.
National
In Chess Olympiads she was very successful. She participated in a total of six times for the Russian women's national team for the first time in Moscow in 1994 on the first reserve board. 1998 in Elista she reached the second board team silver and an individual bronze medal for their results by 9 out of 12 in 2000 in Istanbul, she reached team bronze in 2002 in Bled on top board team silver, 2004 Calvià on the third board team bronze and 2006 in Turin on the first reserve board again team silver.
In 2005, she played in Gothenburg board Three of the Russian National Team at winning the bronze medal at the European Women's Championship. 2007 she took part in Yekaterinburg at the Women's World Cup. The Russian national team won with her silver medal as she won two gold medals: Once for her score of 6.5 out of 7 on the fourth board and for their Elo performance of 2706 At the 2009 World Team Championship in Ningbo reached with the Russian women's national team. again the second place.
Club teams
She played in the Russian ( for ShSM Moscow), Croatian, British ( for Wood Green 1) and Montenegrin ( for T-com Podgorica ) 1st League. In the German Bundesliga woman she plays on the second board of the OSG Baden -Baden.
At the European Club Cup in 1999 in Nova Gorica, she participated for the Ukrainian club Rudenkoschule Kherson. The team won that European Cup, with Kovalevskaya on the second board received an individual silver medal for her score of 5 out of 7. At the European Club Cup 2000 in Halle ( Saale), she participated for Mikhail sealed Igorn Saint Petersburg. The team took second place and Kovalevskaya received a gold medal for their result of 5.5 out of 7 on top board ( Elo performance 2600). At the European Club Cup 2002 in Antalya, she played for Baden -Baden ( Baden- Oos SC at that time ) and received an individual gold medal for her score of 4 out of 6 on the second board. At the European Team Cup 2003 in Rethymno, she participated for the Southern Urals Chelyabinsk. On the top board, she received an individual bronze medal for their results of 5 from 7 in 2005 in Saint -Vincent (Aosta Valley ), she was with the Southern Urals Chelyabinsk team second. When Club Cup 2007 in Kemer, she won a bronze medal for their results of 5 of 7 on the third board Chelyabinsk. With Podgorica, it was 2008 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ) Team Third at Club Cup.
Title and rating
She wears since 1998 the title of Grand Master of the women ( WGM ) and since 2004 an International Master (IM). Your current Elo rating is 2428 (as of January 2010). Your best ever Elo rating they had with 2507 in July 2001; then she was number seven of the women's world rankings.