QUEEN´S GAMBIT TAKE 2

Anna Muzychuck, did not participate in the Saudi Arabia World Chess Championship.

A slap in the face for Saudi Arabia that demands to be respected without it respecting women and the Western way of life.

She lost two World Champion titles – one by one. Just because she decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. Not to play by someone's rules, not to wear abaya, not to be accompanied getting outside, and altogether not to feel myself a secondary creature.

Anna taught to play chess at the age of two by her parents has an impressive curriculum:

From 1997 to 2005 she won several medals at Ukrainian, European and World Youth Championships.

She won gold in the European Under-10 girls championship in 1998 and 2000, Ukrainian under-10 girls championship in 2000, Ukrainian and European under-12 girls championships of 2002, European Under-14 girls championship in 2003 and 2004, World U16 girls championship in 2005. She took silver at the European Under-10 girls championship in 1997 and 1999, European Under-12 girls championship in 2001, World Under-12 girls championship in 2002 and World U14 girls championship in 2004. She was the bronze medalist in the World Under-10 Girls Championship in 2000.

She was awarded the titles of Woman FIDE Master in 2001 and Woman International Master in 2002.

In 2003, Muzychuk also won the Ukrainian Women's Championship.

She won the Ukrainian U20 girls championship of 2004.

In 2004, Muzychuk started to play for Slovenia: she was offered a contract by the Slovenian chess federation and was supported by them over the course of the next ten years.

2015 Ukrainian postage stamp featuring the sisters Muzychuk

In 2007, she won the European women's blitz chess championship and finished second in the European women's rapid chess championship, both held in Predeal, Romania.

Muzychuk was awarded the titles of International Master in 2007 and Grandmaster in 2012.

In 2010, Muzychuk won the World Junior Girls Championship in Chotowa, Poland.

She won the bronze medal in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship of 2012.

In April 2014 Muzychuk won the Women's World Blitz Championship.

Muzychuk won the 2014 Ukrainian women's championship in Lviv.

In January 2016, she won the women's first prize at the Masters tournament of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival.

In December 2016, in Doha, she won the Women's World Rapid Championship, and two days later she defended her Women's Blitz World Championship title

In March 2017, she finished second in the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 in Tehran.

In October 2017, she won the ACP European Women's Rapid Championship in Monte Carlo.