Bibisara Assaubayeva
Bibisara Assaubayeva (born 26 February 2004)[1] is a chess prodigy from Taraz,[2] Kazakhstan.[3] In January 2017 she was ranked world no. 6 girl player.[4]
Biography
One of the three children of Liana Tanzharikova[5], Bibisara played her first chess game at the age of four,[3] taught by her grandfather.[6] She won her first city championship when she was six years old, and has gone on to win many championships all over the world.[3] From 2010 she trained under her coach Azamat Aubakirov, playing chess for six hours per day.[3]
She also competes in artistic gymnastics as well as making good progress in her school education;[3] she started to learn English when she was five years old, and by 2011 she was two years ahead in her school work.[7]
In 2017, at the age of 13, she competed in the Men's European Championship in Minsk against adult grandmasters from Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Israel and Poland.[2] She won three games, lost three and drew four times, gaining a certificate of FIDE Master,[8] a performance described as phenomenal.[9]
Chess grandmaster Darmen Sadvakasov has prophesied a great chess future for Bibisara.[2]
Controversies
The well-known Russian coach GM Evgeniy Solozhenkin accused Bibisara of cheating during the World Youth U14 (September 2017) in Uruguay. The FIDE ethics commission has suspended Solozhenkin for making unsubstantiated allegations of cheating, published in different articles on the internet. A group of grandmasters has written an open letter in support of Solozhenkin.[10]
Achievements
- June 2017 – FIDE Master,[8] Men's European Individual Chess Championship 2017, Minsk[9]
- September 2014 – vice world champion, girls U10, Durban, South Africa[6]
- August 2014 – winner in U-2000 category of 21st Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival[6]
- August 2014 – winner, U14, in 13th Dubai Juniors Chess Championship[6]
- June 2014 – vice Asian champion, girls U12, Tashkent, Uzbekistan[6]
- May 2013 – world champion, girls U9, Porto Caras, Greece[6]
- May 2012 – world champion, girls U9, Iasi, Romania[6]
- March 2012 – champion of Kazakhstan in blitz chess, girls U12 (when she was 8 years old)[6]
- at the age of seven she was awarded the title of Woman FIDE Master of the World Chess Federation[6]
- November 2011 – gold medal,[7] junior world champion, U8, Caldas Novas, Brazil[6]
- May 2011 – world champion among schoolchildren, girls U7, Krakow, Poland[6]
References
- ↑ "The chess games of Bibisara Assaubayeva". chessgames.com. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
- 1 2 3 "13-Jährige holt erste IM-Norm – Eine 13-jährige Schachspielerin aus Taras (Kasachstan) zeigt ein phänomenales Ergebnis". ChessBase. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Miras Abykov (29 May 2013). "Nine-Year Old Chess Prodigy Wins Fourth World Championship". The Astana Times. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
- ↑ "Bibisara Assaubayeva | Six Times World Chess Champion". bibisarachess.com. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
- ↑ "The Ladder to Yourself, by Liana Khakim". amazon.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Assaubaeva Bibisara – Prof. Chess Club". profchessclub.ru. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
- 1 2 "7-y.o. Kazakhstan chess-player wants to become 4th grade pupil - Sport". Tengrinews. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
- 1 2 "Assaubayeva, Bibisara FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
- 1 2 "13-летняя шахматистка из Тараза показала феноменальный результат - Спорт – последние новости и события". Tengrinews. 11 June 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
- ↑ "GM Solozhenkin Suspended For Making Cheating Accusations; Fellow GMs Protest". chess.com. Retrieved 2018-04-13.