- Kateryna Lahno
Infobox chess player
playername = Kateryna Lahno
caption=
birthname = Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lahno
Катерина Олександрівна Лагно
country = UKR
datebirth = birth date and age|1989|12|27
placebirth =Lviv ,Soviet Union
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster,Woman Grandmaster
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2507 (July 2008)
peakrating = 2509 (October 2005)Kateryna Lahno (b.
December 27 ,1989 ) is a Ukrainianchess player. She earned the FIDE title ofWoman Grandmaster (WGM) at the age of 12 years and 4 months, breakingJudit Polgar 's record to become the youngest ever to earn this title. She is now a full Grandmaster (GM). [ [http://fide.com/news.asp?id=1389 FIDE: List of Titles Approved] ,June 25 2007 ] Born inLviv , Lahno grew up in the industrial and chess-friendly townKramatorsk . In 2005 she lives inDonetsk .Lahno was the fifth seed for the 64-player knockout 2004
Women's World Chess Championship . At the age of 15 she won the 2005 European Individual Women's Championship, held in June inChişinău ,Moldova . Tied withRussia n IMNadezhda Kosintseva at the end of the 12th round with 9 points each, Lahno won both games of a two-game rapid-play tie-break playoff to win the championship.Although Lahno, unlike
Judit Polgar , competes for women's titles, both have stated that their true goal is to be simply World Champion.She won IV Women's 'North Urals Cup - 2006', attaining for a full grandmaster norm in the process.
In May 2008, Lahno won the European Individual Women Chess Championships again in
Plovdiv , 0.5 point ahead of the opponents of the 11-round open tournament. [ [http://chess-results.com/tnr12086.aspx?tnr=12086&art=1&lan=1&] of the European Individual Women Chess Championships 2008, the Chess-Results web]
References
External links
*chessgames player|id=50277
*fide|id=14109336|name=Kateryna Lahno
* [http://www.northuralscup.ru/2006/news14eng.shtml Ekaterina Lahno - winner of IV Women's 'North Urals Cup - 2006']
* [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=978 ChessBase "Move over Judit, here comes Kateryna!"]
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