Antoaneta Stefanova

Антоанета Стефанова ( Bulgarian)

Antoaneta Stefanova ( Bulgarian Антоанета Стефанова, born April 19, 1979 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian chess player.

She learned to play chess at the age of four years, along with her ​​three- year-old sister Liana by her father Andon Stefanov. At the age of seven, she was city champion Sofia.

In 1989 she was in Puerto Rico Youth World Champion U10 age group, winning all 11 games. In 1992 she became European Champion in the U14 age group. In the same year she played her first chess Olympiad. In 1995 she won the national championship of women with 13 points from 14 games. In 2000, she was appointed to the Bulgarian national team of men. In 2002 she became European champion in chess Varna. In the same year she won the title of Grand Master.

In 2004 she was in Elista by a 2,5:0,5 victory in the final against Ekaterina Kovalevskaya World Champion. Shortly before she had finished third at the European Championships in Dresden. In 2008 she won the North Urals Cup in Krasnoturjinsk, which was designated an Elo average of the participants of 2522 as bestbesetztes women's tournament of all time.

In June 2012, she won in Batumi, the Women's World Cup in rapid chess.

Your highest Elo rating was 2560 in January 2003 and also again in May 2010; so that it was number 2 (January 2003) and at # 4 (May 2010) of the Women's World Ranking.