Batchimeg Tuvshintugs Explained

Batchimeg Tuvshintugs
Birthname:Tüvshintögsiin Batchimeg
Birth Date:3 May 1986
Birth Place:Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia[1]
International Master (2014)
Woman Grandmaster (2009)
Peakrating:2412 (May 2016)
Fideid:4900839

Batchimeg Tuvshintugs (Mongolian: Түвшинтөгсийн Батчимэг, Tüvshintögsiin Batchimeg; born 3 May 1986) is a Mongolian chess player holding the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). In 2016, Batchimeg was awarded the title State Honored Athlete of Mongolia.[2]

Career

Batchimeg won the Mongolian Women's Chess Championship in 2011 and 2016. In team events, she has represented Mongolia in the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2002, 2012, 2014 and 2016, Women's Asian Team Chess Championship in 2012 and 2016,[3] and 2010 Asian Games.[4]

She represented the United States from 2005 to 2009. In 2006, Batchimeg competed in the U.S. Chess Championship, held on March 2–11 in San Diego, California. Here she scored 3½ points in the first five rounds against grandmasters (Alexander Fishbein, Yury Shulman, Boris Kreiman, Boris Gulko and Julio Becerra).[5] Her performance in this event earned her a norm for both Woman Grandmaster[6] and International Master titles.[7]

In 2013 and 2014, she competed in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series. In the first stage, held in Geneva, she defeated the top seed, Hou Yifan.[8] [9] Batchimeg achieved her best result in the Sharjah leg, where she finished in joint third place with Harika Dronavalli, Zhao Xue and Anna Ushenina,[10] and earned a norm for the title Grandmaster.

Notes and References

  1. https://ratings.fide.com/apps/229294.pdf Certificate of WGM norm at US Championship
  2. Web site: T.Batchimeg: People have thousands of reasons to give up but a single road forward. Bayarsaikhan. Dulguun. 2016-03-29. The UB Post. 2016-11-13. 2017-05-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20170529202850/http://theubpost.mn/2016/03/29/t-batchimeg-people-have-thousands-of-reasons-to-give-up-but-a-single-road-forward/. dead.
  3. Web site: OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Tuvshintogs Batchimeg. Bartelski. Wojciech. www.olimpbase.org. 2016-11-13.
  4. Web site: OlimpBase :: Asian Games (chess - women) :: Tuvshintugs Batchimeg. Bartelski. Wojciech. www.olimpbase.org. 2016-11-13.
  5. Web site: Meeting WFM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs for the first time. 2006-04-16. Susan Polgar Global Chess Daily News and Information. 2016-11-14.
  6. Web site: Title Applications - 80th FIDE Congress 2009, 11-18 October 2009, Halkidiki, GRE. ratings.fide.com. FIDE. 2016-11-14.
  7. Web site: Title Applications - 84th FIDE Congress, Tallinn, EST, 30 September - 10 October 2013. ratings.fide.com. FIDE. 2016-11-14.
  8. Web site: WGP Geneva: shocker in round three. 2013-05-06. Chess News. ChessBase. 2016-11-20.
  9. http://www.chessdom.com/batchimeg-tuvshintugs-defeating-yifan-hou-was-one-of-the-happiest-moments/ Batchimeg Tuvshintugs: “Defeating Yifan Hou was one of the happiest moments”
  10. Web site: Sharjah Final: The Two Chinese take it. Ramirez. Alejandro. Alejandro Ramírez (chess player). 2014-09-08. Chess News. ChessBase. 2016-11-20.

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