- Antoaneta Stefanova
Infobox chess player
playername = Antoaneta Stefanova
caption=
birthname = Antoaneta Stefanova
country = BUL
datebirth = birth date and age|1979|4|19
placebirth =Sofia ,Bulgaria
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =2004 -2006
rating = 2550
peakrating = 2560 (January 2003)Antoaneta Stefanova ( _bg. Антоанета Стефанова) (born
April 19 ,1979 ) is aBulgaria nchess grandmaster, and a formerWomen's World Chess Champion . She became the twelfth titleholder in2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held inElista ,Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE. Stefanova's FIDE rating of 2550 on the July 2008 list placed 5th in the world among active female players.Stefanova was born in
Sofia ,Bulgaria . Her chess-bound passion was inflamed when she was just four years old and she received first classes on the black-and-white chessboard by her own father, Andon Stefanov, himself a designing artist. With her elder sister, Liana, Antoaneta had made her best mating tandem.*At the age of seven, Stefanova became a
Sofia champion.
*In 1989, Stefanova swept the world chess crown for kids in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and later the same year triumphed in the under-14 Czech championship.
*Since 1994, Stefanova has successively competed in grandmaster championships, taking even seventh among male nationals in 1993.
*In 1997 Stefanova's FIDE rating broke into the top ten of women worldwide. Also she earned the title of Grandmaster in June 2003, a title held by only ten other women.
*She has played for Bulgaria in fiveChess Olympiad s so far, starting inManila , the Philippines, in 1992 when she was just 13.
*In 2000, her coach promoted her in the Bulgarian men's team for theIstanbul Olympiad."Sexy, self-confident, sociable ... can we be talking about a professional chess player? Yes, we can," says Pergammon Chess where her photo was on the cover.
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