Natalia Zhukova
Natalia Zhukova (Ukrainian Наталя Жукова; born June 5, 1979 in Dresden), writing at the World Chess Federation FIDE Natalia Zhukova, is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
Life
She is married to the Grand Master Alexander Grishchuk. The couple has a daughter (* 2007) and lives in Odessa and Moscow.
Chess success
Individual successes
She was in Szombathely Youth U14 European Champion, 1994 Herculane Băile in Romanian Youth European Championships U16 in 1993. In the same year she was in Szeged Youth World Champion U16. She was the youngest participant shared the first Ukrainian woman Individual Championship 1996. In 1998, she won tournaments in Belgrade and Groningen, 1999, the EU Championship in Nova Gorica. The first European Women's Championship, which by June 2000, took place from May in Batumi, she defeated Ekaterina Kovalevskaya in the final 2.5 to 1.5, and thus became the first European Champion of chess. In 2003, she won the women's tournament of the North Urals Cup in Krasnoturjinsk.
National
With the Ukrainian women's national team, she participated in nine Chess Olympiads. In 2006 in Turin, the Ukrainian team with her won the Chess Olympiad, where Natalia Zhukova received an additional gold medal for their Elo performance of 2647. At the Chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008 Ukraine took second place, with Natalia Zhukova also received an individual silver medal for her score of 7 out of 10 on the second board. In the European Team Championship 2003 in Plovdiv she got an individual silver medal for their results of 6 of 8 on the first board and a bronze medal for their Elo performance of 2554th The team Women's World Cup 2009 in Ningbo Ukraine on the second board was third with Natalia Zhukova, also at the European Team Championships for women in the same year in Novi Sad. The Chess Olympiad 2012 in Istanbul closed the Ukraine with Zhukova on the third board on the third place from. The World Team Championship 2013 in Astana won with Ukraine, where she received an individual gold medal for her score of 6 out of 8 on the fourth board. They could also win in 2013 with Ukraine on the fourth board the European Championships in Warsaw.
Chess club
Chess club they played in Ukraine for the Rudenko School Kherson with which they in Nova Gorica, the European Club Cup won in 1999, where she still got additionally a gold medal for their result of 5.5 out of 7 on top board. When Club Cup 2001 in Belgrade, she joined with the Romanian team AEM Luxten Timişoara. The team took second place, she got a bronze medal for their result of 4.5 out of 7 on the first board. A year later, in Antalya, it was a gold medal for their result of 4.5 out of 6, again on top board of Timişoara, excellent. At Club Cup 2005 in Saint -Vincent (Aosta Valley ), she participated with the Russian club AVS Krasnoturinsk at Club Cup 2008 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ) for Finek Saint Petersburg. In the Russian team championship of the women she plays for the team of the Moscow firm Giprorechtrans. She played in the Serbian League for the first Montenegrin SK T -Com Podgorica, meanwhile, following Montenegro's independence in the Montenegrin Women's League. In the German Bundesliga woman she played in the seasons 2000/ 01 and 2001/ 02 for the SK Holsterhausen.
Title and rating
In 1995 she received the title of International Champion of Women (WIM). She wears since 1996 the title of Grand Master of the women ( WGM ). The standards required for the Grandmaster title of the men she had since 2006 ( GM norm at the Corus Chess Tournament C 2005, and a double standard at the Chess Olympiad in Turin), the title, however, was her only in 2010 awarded when she for the first time the Elo limit had been exceeded by 2500 at an intermediate standard. Your Elo rating is 2449 (as of December 2013), which she occupies the 35th place in the FIDE world ranking of women. Their highest ever Elo rating at the date of publication was 2499 May-October 2010.