Kateryna Dolzhykova Explained

Kateryna Dolzhykova
Country:	Ukraine (until 2023) Germany (since 2023)
Birth Date:	25 September 1988
Birth Place:	Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Woman Grandmaster (2024)
Peakrating:	2351 (October 2008)
Fideid:	14113414

Kateryna Oleksandrivna Dolzhykova (uk|Катери́на Олекса́ндрівна До́лжикова; born September 25, 1988, in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian chess player (representing Germany since 2023) holding the title Woman International Master (WIM).^[1]

Chess career

She won the Ukrainian women's championship in 2011.^{[2] [3]} Dolzhykova played on the silver medal–winning Ukrainian team in the women's team event of rapid chess at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games.^[4]

On July 24, 2009, she married chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.^{[5] [6] [7]} The marriage later broke up.^[8] Her sister Olga Dolzhykova is also a chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).^{[9] [10]}

External links

• • Kateryna Dolzhykova chess games at 365Chess.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Первая видео-конференция в Интернете под эгидой Киевской школы гроссмейстеров . 2016-12-04 . 2016-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220051917/http://www.chesspage.kiev.ua/fed/pvk/608/pervaya-video-konferentsiya-v-internete-pod-egidoi-kievskoi-shkoly-grossmeisterov . dead .
2. Web site: Екатерина Должикова: Сергей Карякин первым поздравил меня с успехом. 2011-11-06. euro.com.ua. ru. 2016-12-10. 2017-11-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20171107033038/http://euro.com.ua/article/061111-ekaterina-dolzhikova-sergei-karyakin-pervym-pozdravil-menya-s-uspekhom. dead.
3. Web site: Mariya Muzychuk is 2012 Ukrainian Women Champion. 2012-10-03. Chessdom. 2016-12-10.
4. Web site: 1st World Mind Sport Games - Final Women Team Rapid. www.chess-results.com. 2016-12-10.
5. Web site: Sergey Karjakin and Kateryna Dolzhykova get married. 2009-07-26. Chessdom. 2016-12-04. 2018-10-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20181011125952/http://players.chessdom.com/sergey-karjakin/karjakin-dolzhikova. dead.
6. News: Сергей Карякин (шахматист) - биография, информация, личная жизнь, фото, видео. 2016-12-10.
7. Web site: Sergey and Kateryna tie the knot. 2009-08-05. ChessBase. 2016-12-10.
8. Web site: Семейные тайны гроссмейстера Сергея Карякина.
9. Web site: Profil: Olga Dolzhykova . Sylvia . Johnsen . sjakkselskapet.no . no . 21 January 2019 . 31 December 2022.
10. Web site: Dolzhikova, Olga . FIDE . 31 December 2022.