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 97; games 1-25 of 2,407  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 97; games 1-25 of 2,407

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 6 OF 8 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-23-12    HeMateMe: Congratulations to Ms. Stefanova, making the 2012 final four. Exciting chess, great stuff. Nov-25-12    badest: Congratulations Eti for making it to the final! Good Luck!! You can do it! Nov-25-12    waustad: When men approach a match and have a period of dropping ELO, it is typical to ask if they are hiding preparation. I am not qualified to judge whether she has done something like that, but her rating took a serious dive recently which indicated a very different form than what she has shown in this tournament. Dec-08-12    theodor: derzay, krasavitse! Oct-02-13    HeMateMe: Why isn't this girl married? She's a babezilla, interesting career, seems like a nice person. Oct-02-13    TheFocus: <HeMateMe> < Why isn't this girl married?> Don't be scared. Just ask her. How could she turn YOU down? Oct-02-13    HeMateMe: You're right, Focus. The direct approach is always the best. Oct-02-13    TheFocus: Wear clean underwear. You never know when she will get lucky! Oct-02-13    perfidious: Quite true. Oct-02-13    HeMateMe: the clean underwear part is true as well. I've been on both sides of that situation, and it is good to be prepared. Seriously, she's really cute, and smart--no marriage proposals? Could she be gay, or somehow weird? Kosteniuk knew the score, and married some rich, older dude. Why not this gal? Maybe Stefanova has some aversion to long term relationships? Apr-19-14    Mr. President: С днём рождения (Happy Birthday) Antoaneta Stefanova! Apr-19-14    perfidious: <HMM: Maybe Stefanova has some aversion to long term relationships?> It is possible, with good reason--take it from someone who has spent time on the road while the family remained at home. It was part of making a living, but that understanding did not make matters any easier. Apr-20-14    TheFocus: I would ask her out, but then comes marriage. Children. She choose the kids over chess. That would never do. <Tears up paper with her phone number on it and walks away from the phone.> Besides, she's too young for me. Apr-20-14    TheFocus: <HeMateMe> Time for you to step up to the plate. I'd give you her number, but I tore it up. Jul-04-14    waustad: The European Women's Championship begins Sunday in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Here are links to the official site: http://www.eiwcc2014.eu/ and the chess-results page: http://chess-results.com/tnr136442.... Jul-06-14    Fluffy: I'm not seeing the European Women's Championship listed under new games on the Chessgames home page. Am I looking right at it and not seeing it? Seems like it's a big enough competition to warrant its own entry. Jul-07-14    Fluffy: Once they found out who they were dealing with, they were putty in my hands :) Aug-13-14    HeMateMe: Great photo of this beauty, 2004: <https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/...> Apr-19-15    Penguincw: Happy Birthday to GM Antoaneta Stefanova! Apr-19-15    eternaloptimist: Happy birthday to the beautiful & brilliant GM Stefanova! <HeMateMe> That is indeed a great pic! Thx for posting it! Apr-19-15    theodor: you're the best! all the best from sofia. May-27-15    sonia91: <was awarded the Grandmaster title in June 2003> Her FIDE rating card says she earned the title of GM in 2002: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... May-31-15    HeMateMe: A strong resemblance to French actress Jeanne Moreau? <http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr...> Dec-21-15    iking: nice game last night .... Dec-21-15    epistle: She has Bette Davis's eyes. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 8) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 6 OF 8 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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