Zhansaya Abdumalik

From Kazakhstan Encyclopedia

Template:Infobox chess player Zhansaya Danïyarqızı Abdumalik (Template:Lang-kk, Jansaya Danïyarqızı Äbdimälik; born 12 January 2000) is a Kazakh chess International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). A former chess prodigy, she won the U8 girls' world championship in 2008 and the U12 girls' world championship in 2011.

Chess career

Abdumalik began attending a chess school, along with her older brother, at six years old and in January 2007, she won her first trophy at a national tournament.[1] In 2008, she won the girls' U8 section at both the Asian Youth Chess Championship, held in Tehran,[2] and the World Youth Chess Championship in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. In the 2010 World Youth Championship in Porto Carras, she shared 1st–2nd place in the under-10 girls' division, taking the silver medal on tiebreak, and earned the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM). In 2011, she was awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title as a result of her joint first place at the U20 girls' division of the 12th ASEAN+ Age Group Championships held in Tarakan, Indonesia.[3][4] Later that same year, Abdumalik won the world U12 girls' title in Caldas Novas, Brazil.

In September 2013, she finished runner-up in the World Junior Girls Chess Championship;[5] thanks to this achievement, she was voted the best girl under-20 player of 2013 at the 1st Annual Asian Chess Excellence Awards, held in June 2014 in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.[6] In November 2013, she won the Brno Open in the Czech Republic scoring 7.5/9 points.[7][8] Abdumalik won the bronze medal in the Asian Women's Blitz Championship of 2014.[9] She won the bronze medal also at the 2015 World Junior Girls Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk.[10] In 2016, she won the women's championship of Kazakhstan.[11]

Abdumalik played for the Kazakhstani national team in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2014 and 2016 and in the Women's World Team Chess Championships of 2013 and 2015, and in the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship in 2012 and 2016. In the 2016 event she won the team bronze medal and an individual silver playing board 2.[12]

Personal life

In January 2014, Anatoly Karpov visited Almaty to open the newly established Zhansaya Abdumalik Chess Academy.[13] Karpov and Abdumalik also played a four-game match after the ceremony. Karpov won both rapid games (20 minutes per player), while Abdumalik won one blitz game and the second one was drawn.[14]

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