Antoaneta Stefanova biography
Antoaneta Stefanova, (born April 19, 1979, Sofia, Bulgaria), Bulgarian chess participant who was the ladies’s world champion (2004–06).
In 1989 Stefanova received the lady’s under-10 part of the annual Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) World Youth Chess Festival for Peace, which was held that 12 months in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. She first represented Bulgaria within the ladies’s division of the biennial FIDE Chess Olympiads in 1992, which occurred in Manila, Philippines. She earned a spot on the Bulgarian males’s staff for the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey. Stefanova received the 2002 FIDE European Women’s Championship, held in Varna, Bulgaria, with a rating of seven wins, 4 attracts, and 0 losses. For this and different excellent performances, she was awarded the (males’s) International Grandmaster (GM) title in 2003.
Stefanova received the 2004 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, a “knockout” match held in Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia in Russia. (The president of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, was elected president of FIDE in 1996.) The FIDE knockout format options very brief matches and quick deadlines for the video games. Stefanova defeated Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of Russia, a (males’s) International Master (IM), within the remaining four-game match with a draw within the third sport to succeed in a remaining rating of two wins, 1 draw, and 0 losses.
Stefanova was eradicated within the early rounds of the 2006 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and the 2008 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Nalchik, Russia. In 2008 Stefanova received the strongest ladies’s match so far (in line with the typical of the participant’s chess scores; a FIDE class 19 occasion), the North Urals Cup, held in Krasnoturinsk, Russia, which had three different GMs (together with the previous ladies’s world champion Xu Yuhua of China), three IMs, and one Woman Grandmaster (WGM) within the eight-player discipline.