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Bibisara Assaubayeva

Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kazakh: Бибісара Асаубаева, Bibısara Asaubaeva; born 26 February 2004) is a Kazakhstani chess player. Assaubayeva holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.[1][2] She is a two-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion. She was given the award of Outstanding Female Chess Player of 2021 in Asia by FIDE when being still a teenager.[3] She entered the Guinness World Records book in 2022, for her achievement as the youngest women's World Blitz Chess Champion, which she became in 2021 and retained in 2022.[4][5]

Bibisara Assaubayeva
Assaubayeva in 2023
CountryKazakhstan (pre-2016; since 2019)
Russia (2016–2019)
Born (2004-02-26) 26 February 2004 (age 20)
Taraz, Kazakhstan
TitleInternational Master (2020)
Woman Grandmaster (2019)
FIDE rating2488 (November 2024)
Peak rating2488 (November 2024)

Biography

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Born in Taraz,[6] Kazakhstan, Assaubayeva played her first chess game at the age of four,[7] taught by her grandfather.[8] She won her first city championship when she was six years old.[7] She achieved the title of Woman FIDE Master in 2011, at the age of 7, when she won the World Youth Championships in Caldas Novas, Brazil in the Girls U8 section. Assaubayeva also competed in artistic gymnastics being a champion of Astana several times.[7]

In 2016 she moved with her family to live in Moscow and switched her federation affiliation to Russia. Assaubayeva won the gold medal at the World Cadets Championships in Batumi, Georgia in the Girls U12 category,[9] and the next year, she won silver in the Girls U14 division in Montevideo, Uruguay.[10] Also in 2017, at the age of 13, Assaubayeva competed in the European Individual Championship in Minsk.[6] She won three games, lost three and drew four, gaining a norm for the title of International Master.[11]

In 2019 Assaubayeva decided to move back to Kazakhstan and switched her national federation to her native country;[12] she never applied for the Russian citizenship while living in Russia.[13] In March 2019 she made her debut in the Kazakhstani national team at the Women's World Team Championship on the 3rd and 2nd boards and gained 5 points out of 9; the result was the best in the team.[14]

In December 2021, she finished second behind Alexandra Kosteniuk in the Women's World Rapid Championship, held in Warsaw, Poland. 2 days later she became the Women's World Blitz champion, winning the event held with a round to spare and a score of 14/17, winning 13 games. She defended her title the next year, at the World Blitz Chess Championship 2022 held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where she won with a score of 13/17.[15]

Controversies

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Solozhenkin

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Russian grandmaster and coach Evgeniy Solozhenkin accused Assaubayeva on several internet articles of cheating during the World Youth U14 Championship in Uruguay in September 2017. The FIDE Ethics Commission suspended Solozhenkin for making unsubstantiated allegations of cheating. A group of grandmasters wrote an open letter in support of Solozhenkin.[16] Assaubayeva's family sued Solozhenkin for defamatory allegations made in public and in the media that offended Assaubayeva's honor and dignity. The Moscow Appellate Court ordered Solozhenkin to apologize, disavow his allegations to the media, delete the defamatory articles, and pay a compensatory sum of 100 thousand rubles.[17]

Unsolicited letters

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In 2022 the investigative journalism outlet Meduza revealed that she, along with many other female chess players have received harassments in form of unsolicited letters containing used condoms and pornographic pictures from a resident in Riga, Latvia. With the assistance of forensic experts and through searching the contents of data breaches, Meduza managed to pinpoint the identity of the sender to international master Andrejs Strebkovs.[18][19][20][21]

Achievements

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Assaubayeva on a 2023 stamp of Kazakhstan

References

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  1. ^ "Бибисара Асаубаева стала гроссмейстером". Tengrinews.kz (in Russian). 10 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Assaubayeva, Bibisara". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Year of the Woman in Chess Awards Granted in Chennai". www.fide.com. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  4. ^ Bulatkulova, Saniya (7 April 2022). "Kazakh Chess Player Bibisara Assaubayeva Entered Into Guinness World Records". The Astana Times. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Magnus Carlsen and Bibisara Assaubayeva win the World Blitz Chess Championships". www.fide.com. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  6. ^ a b "13-Jährige holt erste IM-Norm – Eine 13-jährige Schachspielerin aus Taras (Kasachstan) zeigt ein phänomenales Ergebnis". ChessBase (in German). 19 June 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  7. ^ a b c Miras Abykov (29 May 2013). "Nine-Year Old Chess Prodigy Wins Fourth World Championship". The Astana Times. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Assaubaeva Bibisara – Prof. Chess Club". profchessclub.ru. Archived from the original on 2 January 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  9. ^ a b "Assaubayeva Bibisara". womengrandprix.fide.com. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  10. ^ Байкетаев, Тимур (27 September 2017). "Выступающая за Россию шахматистка из Тараза выиграла седьмую медаль на ЧМ". informburo.kz (in Russian). Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  11. ^ a b "13-летняя шахматистка из Тараза показала феноменальный результат – Спорт – последние новости и события". Tengrinews (in Russian). 11 June 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Юная шахматистка Бибисара Асаубаева возвращается в Казахстан". Tengrinews.kz (in Russian). 16 February 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  13. ^ ""Вставлял палки в колеса". Мама Бибисары Асаубаевой сделала заявление". Tengrinews.kz (in Russian). 26 February 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  14. ^ "Командный чемпионат мира пройдет в Казахстане". Chessnews.info (in Russian). 1 March 2019. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  15. ^ "WOMEN BLITZ – FIDE World Rapid and Blitz 2022". Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  16. ^ "GM Solozhenkin Suspended For Making Cheating Accusations; Fellow GMs Protest". chess.com. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  17. ^ "Теперь: Танжарикова выиграла, Соложенкин проиграл". chess-news.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  18. ^ "Это похоже на крик души. Но я не знаю, о чем он кричит Больше десяти лет кто-то присылает российским шахматисткам письма с использованными презервативами и порно. Мы нашли этого человека". Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  19. ^ "Педофил прислал юной шахматистке Бибисаре Асаубаевой непристойное письмо". Главные новости Казахстана – Tengrinews.kz (in Russian). 11 June 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  20. ^ Doggers (PeterDoggers), Peter (7 February 2022). "Vulgar Letters Were Sent To Female Chess Players For Over A Decade". Chess.com. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  21. ^ "«Медуза»*: российские шахматистки больше десяти лет получали письма с использованными презервативами". Главные новости мира — последние события в мире сегодня | RTVI (in Russian). 2 July 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  22. ^ "Bibisara Assaubayeva clinches Asian Women's Online Championship". FIDE website.
  23. ^ "Шахматистка Асаубаева заняла третье место на турнире в Абу-Даби". 11 August 2019.
  24. ^ "Асаубаева стала третьей на чемпионате зоны 3.4 ФИДЕ". 30 May 2019.
  25. ^ "7-y.o. Kazakhstan chess-player wants to become 4th grade pupil – Sport". Tengrinews. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
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