- Alexandra Obolentseva
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Alexandra Obolentseva 
Full name Александра Оболенцева Country Russia Born June 21, 2001
Tula, RussiaTitle Woman Candidate Master (WC) (2010) FIDE rating 1853 (November 2011) Peak rating 1882 (May 2011) Alexandra "Sasha" Sergeevna Obolentseva (Russian: Александра Сергеевна Оболенцева; born June 21, 2001 in Tula, Russia) is a Russian chess player. She finished third in the 2010 World Youth Championship, and won the Russian Youth Championship the following year at age nine.
After her 2010 achievement, FIDE awarded her the title Woman Candidate Master (WCM).
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Chess career
Alexandra started playing chess in September 2007, in Sport School № 4 of Tula. Her coach was Golovin Nikolay Mihajlovich.[1]
2008
The first competition in which Alexandra participated was the Tula championships in 2008. There, she won first place and became the champion of Tula.
The same year, Alexandra took part in several other competitions:
- Tula region championship, under 8's age group – 2nd place
- Russian U8 championship – 95th place
- Tula region championship, under 10's age group – 3rd place
- Central Federal District championship, under 10's age group – 13th place
- The Second Cup Alexandra Kosteniuk – 2nd place among girls
Alexandra met with the women's world champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and after this began to improve her game.[2]
2009
In 2009, Alexandra began playing in other, more adult, chess tournaments. In January, she took part in the International Chess Festival, Moscow Open 2009,[3] in Tournament D. She won first place, edging out the nearest competitor by a full point.[4][5]
Alexandra at the Moscow Open 2009
As winner of the festival she earned the right to participate at the World School Chess Championship in Thessaloniki, Greece in May 2009.[6] There, she took fifth place in a group of girls under 9 years, and first place in a subgroup under 8 years.[7]
In June, Alexandra, "one of the top world girls talents",[8] won the Russian U8 championship. The competition took place in Kostroma and finished on June 1, Children's Day holiday. A total of 143 young players participated. With seven victories and two draws, Alexandra finished top of the table.[8]
In July, Sasha participated in the Sixth International chess festival in Obninsk, in Tournament D, where she won first place in the open tournament among children under 8 years.[9] In August, she participated in Tula regional finals again, under 10's age group. In a hard struggle, she won first place and became the champion of the Tula area among girls under 10 years.[10]
In November, Sasha participated in the World Youth Chess Championships in Antalya, Turkey, in tournament category girl under 8 years. After a bitter struggle she took eighth place.[11]
2010
Sasha in KayseriIn February 2010, Sasha again participated in the International Chess Festival, Moscow Open 2010. After losing in the deciding set to Camila Zamalova, Sasha took third place.[12]
Alexandra – third in the World (2010)At the Russian Youth Championship, which took place in April in Sochi, Alexandra competed in the up to 10 years category, in opposition with older girls. She finished sixth and retains the right to play in the Premier League in 2011.[13]
In May, Alexandra participated in an "International chess tournament for the prizes GM Alexey Fedorov's" in Gomel, Belarus, the team of the Tula region. Sasha played in an under 11 open tournament and held first place. The Tula team also took first place in the team event.[14]
In July, Sasha took part in the International Chess Festival "Volga Cup 2010" in Kostroma, Russia, where play was also open to an older age under 11 years, and took second place among girls, being surpassed only by the Russian under 10 years champion, Alexandra Dimitrova.[15]
Immediately after participation in the Volga Cup, Sasha took part in the 6th World School Chess Championship in Kayseri, Turkey. With less than 7.5 points and having beaten Khanim Balajayeva from Azerbaijan in the sixth round, Sasha came in second place on tie-break, missing Khanim at first place.[16]
In August, Sasha again took part in the championships in Tula region. To help prepare for future tournaments, she decided to play in the tournament category boys under 11 years. Losing just half a point, Sasha took first place.
Sasha participated at the European Youth Chess Championship 2010 in Batumi,[17] where she arrived with her mother only and without a chess coach, and had the unusual and unfortunate result of finishing in 17th place.
But within three weeks at the World Youth Chess Championship 2010 in Halkidiki, Greece,[18] and under the strong hand of her new coach Wulfson Vladimir, Sasha showed very different results: Making a brilliant start in the tournament, after six rounds she had six points. With the assumption of a few draws and the loss of one game before the last round, she had every chance of taking first place. Unfortunately, her loss in the final round to Abdumalik Zhansaya of Kazakhstan left Sasha in third place.
In accord with her results from the World Youth Chess Championship 2010, Sasha was awarded the title "Woman Candidate Master (FIDE)".[19]
2011
In April 2011 in Sochi, Sasha again took part in the Russian Youth Chess Championship among girls under 10 years. This time she took first place and became Champion of Russia.[20]
Personal life
Sasha in the Tula KremlinAlexandra studies in the Tula elementary school № 29, in the fourth class. One of her grandmothers, Nina Obolentseva, also plays chess and has a FIDE rating.[21]
Sample game
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1 a b c d e f g h Sasha decides after eight moves to unleash a kingside attack: 9.g2–g4a b c d e f g h 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h Position after 20.Bd3–f5: White wins the e6-pawnA. Obolentseva–A. Anfinogenova, Moscow Open 2011:[22]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 Bf5 5.Qb3 b6 6.e3 e6 7.Bd2 Be7 8.h3 0-0 9.g4 Be4 10.Nxe4 Nxe4 11.h4 Nxd2 12.Kxd2 dxc4 13.Bxc4 b5 14.Bd3 a5 15.Qc2 h6 16.g5 h5 17.Ke2 Qe8 18.g6 f6 19.Qb3 Bd6 20.Bf5 Kh8 21.Qxe6 Qxe6 22.Bxe6 Re8 23.d5 c5 24.Nd2 c4 25.f4 Bb4 26.Ne4 Na6 27.a3 Bc5 28.f5 Rad8 29.Ng3 Nc7 30.Rad1 Nxd5 31.Ne4 Rxe6 32.fxe6 Be7 33.Nc3 Nc7 34.Rxd8+ Bxd8 35.Rd1 Nxe6 36.Rd6 Kg8 37.Rxe6 Kf8 38.Kf3 b4 39.Nd5 c3 40.axb4 cxb2 41.Nc3 axb4 42.Nb1 f5 43.Kg3 Be7 44.e4 fxe4 45.Rxe4 Bd6+ 46.Kf3 Be7 47.Ke2 Ke8 48.Kd3 Kd7 49.Kc2 Bf6 50.Rxb4 Ke6 51.Kd3 Kf5 52.Ke3 Kxg6 53.Kf3 Kf7 54.Kg3 Be5+ 55.Kh3 Kf6 56.Rb5 g6 57.Nd2 Bf4 58.Ne4+ Ke6 59.Ng5+ Kf6 60.Rxb2 1–0References
- ^ The Tula official information portal (Russian)
- ^ Alexandra Kosteniuk's Women's Chess Blog
- ^ Moscow Open 2009
- ^ Alexander Konov's Reporting on GTRC "Tula" (Russian)
- ^ Yana Podzjuban's Reporting on the First channel Russian TV (Russian)
- ^ World School Chess Championship
- ^ Article in the newspaper "Molodoy Communar" (Russian)
- ^ a b ChessDom
- ^ Sixth International chess festival (Russian)
- ^ Article in the newspaper "KP-Tula" (Russian)
- ^ World Youth Championships 2009
- ^ Moscow Open 2009
- ^ Russian Youth Championship 2010 (Russian)
- ^ International chess tournament for the prizes GM Alexey Fedeorov's (Russian)
- ^ Volga Cup 2010 (Russian)
- ^ World School Chess Championship
- ^ European Youth Chess Championship 2010
- ^ World Youth Chess Championship 2010
- ^ "FIDE Chess Profile: Obolentseva, Alexandra". World Chess Federation. http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=24153648. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- ^ Russian chess Federation (Russian)
- ^ "FIDE Chess Profile: Obolentseva, Nina". World Chess Federation. http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=4102835. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- ^ "Obolentseva__Alexandra_VS_Anfinogenova__Anastasiya" Moscow Open 2011 FIDE
External links
- Chess world of Sasha Obolentseva
- FIDE rating card for Alexandra Obolentseva
Categories:- 2001 births
- Living people
- People from Tula, Russia
- Russian chess players
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