Country Russia | Role Chess Player Name Alexandra Obolentseva | |
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Full name Alexandra Sergeevna Obolentseva aleksandra Sergeevna Obolentseva Born June 21, 2001 (age 22)
Tula, Russia ( 2001-06-21 ) Title Woman Candidate Master (2010) Woman FIDE Master (2011) | ||
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Alexandra Sergeevna Obolentseva (Russian: Александра Серге́евна Оболенцева; born 21 June 2001) is a Russian chess player.
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She has won the World Youth Chess Championships, the World Schools Chess Championships and the European Schools Chess Championships in her age girls category.
Chess career
Obolentseva began playing chess in September 2007 at six years of age, in the Sport School No. 4 of Tula, where she was born. Her coach was Nikolai Mikhailovich Golovin. She won the Russian Youth Championship three times, in the categories girls U8 in 2009, girls U10 in 2011, and girls U12 in 2012.
In 2009, by finishing first in an event for children at the 6th International Chess Festival "Moscow Open", she qualified to play in the World School Chess Championships in Thessaloniki, Greece. In this event, Obolentseva took fifth place in the under-9 girls' division, and first place in the under-8 subgroup.
In 2010, in the 6th World School Chess Championships in Kayseri, Turkey, Obolentseva came in second place on tie-break in the girls U9 section, losing out to Khanim Balajayeva from Azerbaijan. At the World Youth Championships 2010 in Halkidiki, Greece, under the guidance of her new coach, Vladimir Wulfson, she finished third. As a result, she was awarded the FIDE title of Woman Candidate Master.
In November 2011, at the World Youth Championships in Caldas Novas, Brazil, she took the gold medal to become under-10 girls' world champion. As a result, she was awarded the title of Woman FIDE Master.
In 2012, she won the under 11 girls' event of the World School Championship in Iași, Romania, and won the bronze medal at the European Youth Chess Championships in Prague in the under 12 girls category.
In 2013, she played for Russia's second team in the girls' section of the European Youth Team Championship in Maribor, Solovenia.
In 2014 Obolentseva won the girls U13 event of the European School Chess Championships in Kavala, Greece.
In 2015, she won the European Schools Championship in the under-15 girls' division, and took the bronze medal in the under-14 girls' event at the European Youth Championship.
In February 2016, she shared first place in the women's event of the Moscow Open with Anastasia Bodnaruk and Soumya Swaminathan, finishing third on tiebreak. She also earned an International Master norm thanks to her rating performance of 2548. In June, she won the girls U15 event at the European School Chess Championship in Halkidiki. The following month, she played for the silver medal-winning Russian team in the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad in Poprad, Slovakia.