Anastasia Bodnaruk

Russian chess player

Anastasia Bodnaruk
Bodnaruk at Russian Chess Championship 2018
Country	Russia
Born	(1992-03-30) March 30, 1992 (age 32) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Title	International Master (2010) Woman Grandmaster (2009)
Peak rating	2479 (June 2016)

Anastasia Mikhailovna Bodnaruk (Russian: Анастасия Михайловна Боднарук; born 30 March 1992)^[1] is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the current women's World Rapid Chess Champion after winning the World Rapid Chess Championship 2023.^[2]

Career

Bodnaruk won the under 12 girls' section of the European Youth Chess Championship in 2003.^[3] In 2004, she finished the runner-up in the under 12 girls' division of both European^[4] and World Youth Chess Championships.^[5] She took the bronze medal in the World U14 Girls Championship of 2005.^[6]

In 2008, she won the Russian Junior (Under-20) Girls Championship^[7] and helped the Russian team to win the silver medal in the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad.^[8]

In August 2010, Bodnaruk was part of the Russian women's team in the 7th China-Russia Match.^[9] The following month, she played in the Russia B team at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk and won an individual silver medal playing board four.^[10]

In 2012, she won for the second time the Russian Junior Girls Championship^[11] and tied for the first place, finishing third on tiebreak, in the World Junior Girls Chess Championship.^[12] Bodnaruk competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2012, where she was knocked out in the first round by Lela Javakhishvili.

By winning the women's Russian Championship Higher League^[13] of 2013 she qualified for the Russian Women's Championship Superfinal, held later that year, where she finished eighth.^[14] In December 2013, she won the Women's Russian Cup, a knockout tournament, by defeating WIM Margarita Schepetkova in the final.^[15]

In 2015, Bodnaruk won the Saint Petersburg women's rapid championship^[16] and the Russian women's blitz championship.^[17] Later that year, she finished second in the Russian Women's Championship Superfinal^[18] and played in the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2015 Women's European Team Chess Championship in Reykjavík.

Bodnaruk won the women's section of the 2016 Moscow Open, edging Soumya Swaminathan and Alexandra Obolentseva on tiebreak.^[19]

In December 2023, she won the women's World Rapid Chess Championship 2023 with a score of 11/15 (+8-1=6).^[2]

References

^ IM title application FIDE
^ ^a ^b Rodgers (JackRodgers), Jack (2023-12-28). "Carlsen Wins 5th Rapid World Championship; Bodnaruk Wins 1st". Chess.com. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
^ European Youth Championship Girls - U12 Chess-Results
^ European Girls Under 12 Chess Championship Chess-Results
^ World Youth Chess Championships 2004 Girls U12 Chess-Results
^ World Youth Chess Championship 2005 G14 Chess-Results
^ TWIC 698
^ "India wins the Chess U16 Olympiad 2008 ahead of Russia" Archived 2015-09-05 at the Wayback Machine. Chessdom. 2008-08-25.
^ 7th China-Russia Match ChessBase News. 2010-08-05
^ Olympiad 2010: Ukraine and Russia 1 win gold FIDE. 2010-09-20
^ Russian Junior Championships 2012 TWIC 912 30.04.2012
^ World Junior Chess Championship 2012 Girls Under 20 Chess-Results
^ 66th Russian Championship Higher League 2013 TWIC 20.06.2013
^ 66th Russian Championship Super Final 2013 TWIC 14.10.2013
^ "Anastasia Bodnaruk claims Russian Cup for Women". Chessdom. 2013-12-18. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
^ St.Petersburg Rapid Championship (Women) Chess-Results
^ "Dmitry Bocharov Becomes Russian Blitz Champion". Russian Chess Federation. 2015-05-15. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
^ "Tomashevsky and Goryachkina Become Champions". Russian Chess Federation. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
^ "RSSU Chess Cup Moscow Open 2016 – All Winners". Chessdom. 2016-02-09. Retrieved 2016-04-09.