ANTOANETA STEFANOVA (born Apr-19-1979, 46 years old) Bulgaria [what is this?] Antoaneta Stefanova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She learned to play when she was four years old and won her first tournament at the age of 7 in Sofia. In 1989, she became the inaugural U10 World Girls Champion. Stefanova has played for Bulgaria in five Chess Olympiads, starting in Manila in 1992 when she was 13 years old. In 2000, she was promoted to the Bulgarian men's team for the Istanbul Olympiad. She won the European Women's Championship in 2002, achieved her peak rating of 2560 in January 2003. She was awarded the IM title in 1997 and the Grandmaster title in 2002. In 2012, she won the Women's World Rapid Championship (2012) outright with 8.5/11. She is also a FIDE Senior Trainer (2015). Stefanova won the FIDE Women's World Championship (2004) in Elista, Kalmykia, and competed in the FIDE Women's World Championship (2006) in Ekaterinburg, Russia, making it through to the second round. She also reached round 4 (quarter finals) of the Women's World Championship (2008) in Nalchik in the Russian oblast of Kabardino-Balkaria. She came very close to taking the title a second time at the FIDE Knock-out Women's World Championship (2012), defeating Russian IM and WGM Marina Romanko Guseva, former Women's World Champion, Chinese GM Zhu Chen, Polish GM Monika (Bobrowska) Socko, French GM Marie Sebag, and Indian GM Dronavalli Harika, before losing in the first set of tiebreakers of the final to Ukrainian IM Anna Ushenina. Live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/women Wikipedia article: Antoaneta Stefanova

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page 1 of 98; games 1-25 of 2,436  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Stefanova vs S Savova   1-0 32 1989 BUL-ch 38th (Women) D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 2. E Georgieva vs A Stefanova   ½-½ 34 1991 BUL-ch (Women) D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation) 3. A Stefanova vs M Velcheva   0-1 35 1991 BUL-ch (Women) D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation) 4. A Stefanova vs S Savova   ½-½ 30 1991 BUL-ch (Women) A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 5. A Stefanova vs C Peptan   ½-½ 23 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls A48 King's Indian 6. A Stefanova vs H Ilieva   ½-½ 49 1992 BUL-chT (Women) D73 Neo-Grunfeld, 5.Nf3 7. A Stefanova vs E Georgieva   1-0 39 1992 BUL-chT (Women) D79 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O, Main line 8. N Kruljac vs A Stefanova   0-1 25 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls A07 King's Indian Attack 9. N Gukova vs A Stefanova   0-1 36 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls E10 Queen's Pawn Game 10. A Stefanova vs N Mereacre 1-0 53 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls B12 Caro-Kann Defense 11. Stela Milanova vs A Stefanova   0-1 11 1992 BUL-ch (Women) B01 Scandinavian 12. A Stefanova vs S Tkeshelashvili   ½-½ 32 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls D02 Queen's Pawn Game 13. A Stefanova vs E Zlatanova   ½-½ 33 1992 BUL-ch (Women) D79 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O, Main line 14. M Socko vs A Stefanova   ½-½ 47 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls A11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System 15. M Luks vs A Stefanova 0-1 17 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls B01 Scandinavian 16. A Stefanova vs E Hagesaether   1-0 28 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 17. A Stefanova vs M Vasiltseva 1-0 23 1992 EU-ch U14 Girls D02 Queen's Pawn Game 18. M Koen vs A Stefanova   1-0 38 1992 BUL-ch (Women) D36 Queen's Gambit Declined, Exchange, Positional line, 6.Qc2 19. A Stefanova vs N Karakashian   1-0 50 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 20. S de Vries vs A Stefanova   ½-½ 25 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 21. M Ranniku vs A Stefanova ½-½ 72 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation) 22. A Stefanova vs S Sabirova   0-1 18 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 23. A Stefanova vs I Zak   1-0 36 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) D02 Queen's Pawn Game 24. A Stefanova vs M Sulistya   0-1 41 1992 Manila Olympiad (Women) A46 Queen's Pawn Game 25. A Stefanova vs T Papadopoulou   1-0 38 1992 Mangalia Balkaniad (girls) A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4  page 1 of 98; games 1-25 of 2,436

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 8 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-16-04    acirce: Zhu Chen was the world champion before Stefanova. Other titles she may have, I don't know. Sep-16-04    yoozum: ok, now it makes sense. thanks. Oct-30-04    percyblakeney: Not a good Olympiad for Stefanova, winning only 3 out of 11 games, losing with white against Paridar (2242), Muzychyk (2383) and Kosteniuk. Her rating performance was 2385. Dec-10-04    percyblakeney: As Kosteniuk, Stefanova lost both her games in Aix-en-Provence and will have to play better to get a good result in Corus B: http://www.coruschess.com/ Dec-28-04    Dionyseus: Stefanova is playing at the Drammen International Chess Festival, I believe she lost her first round game, against Macieja. I'm thinking the competition is too tough for her. Dec-28-04    cu8sfan: <Dionyseus> She will definitely have a hard time in Drammen even though with Lei replacing Agdestein there's one more player in her league participating. By the way we are discussing this tournament on the Magnus Carlsen page. Why don't you participate in the daily prediction game? Dec-28-04    percyblakeney: Stefanova will maybe not even be ranked in the top ten of the women on the next FIDE list. Jan-04-05    BishopBerkeley: She's certainly one of the happiest-looking Chessplayers I've seen!! (Of course, appearances can be deceivng, but I hope they are not in her case!) Chessplayers so often look so serious. http://www.tsf.org.tr/english/europ... http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/rekius/... (: ♗B :) Jan-04-05    MidnightDuffer: Pictures of her in the latest Chess Life; Holiday Issue; in what appears to me as what you would call formal evening wear. Apr-30-05    ChessHistorian: It is hard to compare players like Stefanova and Zhu Chen to Xie Jun or Susan Polgar. Xie Jun and Susan Polgar were classicial world champions and they still are a class above the knockout winners. The new knockout events have cheapen the title. CH Jun-14-05    Warrush: this chick is hot :) Jul-13-05    percyblakeney: Stefanova's result in the North Urals Cup is another candidate for the "bad result of a reigning World Champion"-list, she finished last in a field of ten players: http://www.europe-echecs.com/articl... Sep-25-05    percyblakeney: Stefanova keeps losing rating points, 2494 on the October list, she will be behind for example ten years younger Lahno, even if she still seems to stay in the top ten. I wonder if FIDE plans to improve their cycle also when it comes to the Women's Championship, Stefanova won the title in a final of three games, which sure is much worse than the earlier system... Oct-11-05    AlexanderMorphy: how come this website doesn't have a bio of the womens world champion!? Oct-11-05    Dionyseus: <perceyblakeney> ouch, that isn't a good result for her at all. Susan Polgar needs to regain her title. Oct-12-05    AlexanderMorphy: Yes Stefanova isn't doing too well at the moment...let's hope that changes as soon as possible! Oct-20-05    percyblakeney: Stefanova sure has found tough opposition in her upcoming tournament, a double round-robin where her "worst" opponent is 160 points higher rated Sutovsky: http://www.essentchess.nl/index2005... Oct-20-05    VishyFan: <percyblakeney> shez 2491 according to the updated rating list........ she sure has a tough opposition in Sutovsky 2654, Harikrishna 2673 and Sokolov 2696..... I wud say this is huge mis-match, it'd be better for the tournament as well for Stefanove if somebody in the 2600+ league wud take her place..... Oct-26-05    percyblakeney: Stefanova will at least not finish with 0 points in Essent, she has one draw after the first half of the tournament, but the question is if she will get much more... Harikrishna and Sokolov are in the lead. Oct-27-05    percyblakeney: Update with two rounds to go: 1. Harikrishna 3 2. Sokolov, Sutovsky 2 4. Stefanova 1 http://www.europe-echecs.com/articl... Oct-28-05    iron maiden: White against Sutovsky today, and she's already down a pawn after 18 moves. http://www.essentchess.nl/live/tfd.... Oct-28-05    euripides: ... and was duly able to use the opposite coloured bishops and the hold on b5 to get what looks a fairly comfortable draw. Feb-10-06    DutchDunce: Stefanova's opening trademark is the Tromp (1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5). I have been experimenting with creating a Stefanova personality in CM9000 with the Tromp as her main opening weapon, and an "Anti-Stefanova" whose lone response to 1.d4 is ...h6. After several dozen simulated games, the Anti-Stef has a HUGE plus against the Stef, even with the strength set weaker. Record of 1.d4 h6 on CG's database: 61.5% black wins. Feb-10-06    RookFile: After 1. d4 h6 2. e4, correct is 2..... Rh7, and white's game is already resignable. Mar-12-06    EmperorAtahualpa: I'm amazed there's no biography for her yet! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 8) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 8 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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