Anastasiya Karlovich

Anastasiya Karlovich
Country Ukraine
Born (1982-05-29) 29 May 1982
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title Woman Grandmaster (2003)
FIDE rating 2204
Peak rating 2313 (October 2001)

Anastasiya Karlovich (born 29 May 1982) is a Ukrainian chess player and journalist. She was awarded by FIDE the titles Woman International Master in 2000 and Woman Grandmaster in 2003.[1]

Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Karlovich started to play chess at age eight. She was the women's chess champion of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the semi-finalist of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast men's chess championship in 1998. She later moved to Kharkiv and in 2007 became a chess journalist as well, having published articles in the newspaper Ladya, magazines New in Chess and Schach 64, the ChessBase website and elsewhere. Karlovich was the press secretary of FIDE at the World Chess Championship in 2012, 2013, 2014.[2][3] and 2016.[4]

She played on the first board for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the European Girls' Under-18 Team Chess Championship in 2000.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Anastasiya Karlovich rating card at FIDE
  2. ↑ Карлович Анастасия (in Russian). Dnipropetrovsk Chess Federation. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "FIDE Officials WCC 2014". FIDE.
  4. ↑ Magnus Carlsen declined to attend the press conference
  5. ↑ Anastasia Karlovich team chess record at Olimpbase.org
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