Here are some photos of myself in the event. Sorry it took long to get them! Not the best pictures of myself but oh well! Here you go 🙂
UNAM photos
Going to Iceland in February for Reykjavik Open 2013!
It is official! I finally bought my flight ticket to Iceland for next years tournament in February!
I am once again thrilled to be playing in an international tournament, especially since it is very soon!
Iceland will be the 21st country I have traveled so far! I am awfully excited!
To anyone who is interested, I recommend you play in this strong tournament, check out the link below! 🙂
Questions
Here are just some basic questions that people ask me in the chess world.
Where are you from?
I was born in Odessa, Ukraine. When I just turned three years old, my parents decided to move to Canada to start a new life. I am currently eighteen years old, I have lived in Canada fifteen years now.
What age did you start playing chess?
At the age of four, I already knew how to move the pieces and even played many games with my father. That same year, I lost interest. Age nine, I started up again.
How did you start playing chess?
I started playing chess because of my father (Sergiy Orlov), he was once a chess player and coach himself back when he lived in Odessa, Ukraine. The reason why I got back into chess at the age of nine was thanks to my father, who offered me to play against an IM at a Simultaneous exhibition. The simul was a success, I ended up drawing my first real game against this player! I was excited to carry on playing.
What attracted you to the game?
I would say I have chess in my blood, My father and Grandfather played chess very competitively. My grandfather was even an IM when he was living in San Francisco, USA. Sadly he passed away in 2009.
Who taught you chess?
My father taught me chess for most of my chess career, this was during the years of 2004-2008. Sadly, after 2008 I decided to quit chess all together for about one and a half years. I ended up coming back into the chess world during the early 2010 year, but did not study nor improve because I was a high school student.
When did you begin playing tournaments and how did you do?
When I was nine years old, I went to my first national tournament – Canadian Youth Chess Championship 2004. I played in the Under 10 Category and got second place! My old friend WCM Alexandra Botez was the one who was undefeated and got first!
Who was your coach?
My father was mostly my coach. IM Yuri Ochkoos as well, for a short period of time.
What is your study routine now?
I have to admit, I have not studied for almost four and a half years. I had high school, and now currently college on my mind. I am trying to change my ways for next year though (2013). I would like to play a chess tournament in Iceland this upcoming February so I will most definitely start studying before that!
What is your greatest achievement?
Other than representing the Canadian Women’s Team at the World Chess Olympiad in 2010 (Board 4) and 2012 (Board 3).
World Youth Chess Championship 2008 in Vietnam. My result was 7/11 – 5 wins, 4 draws, 2 losses. I was tied for 9th place!
If anyone has any questions feel free to contact me or write a comment below! Check the ‘contact’ page to send me an email!  I will reply as soon as possible!
GM Eric Hansen wins Panama Chess Open 2!
Congratulations to my old friend Eric Hansen for playing an outstanding tournament with a performance rating of almost 2900!
Top 10 Ranking
Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 IM Hansen Eric CAN 2539 8.5 43.5 52.0 48.75
2 IM Prasca Sosa Rafael VEN 2415 7.0 35.0 51.0 38.50
3 GM Cordova Emilio PER 2568 7.0 34.5 51.5 37.75
4 IM Hevia Alejano Carlos Antonio CUB 2508 6.5 36.5 49.0 32.25
5 GM Almeida Quintana Omar CUB 2519 6.5 34.5 49.5 33.75
6 GM Marin Mihail ROU 2547 6.5 34.0 52.0 35.00
7 GM Bacallao Alonso Yusnel CUB 2580 6.5 33.0 50.5 33.75
8 FM Hambleton Aman CAN 2404 6.0 33.5 47.5 30.25
9 FM Obregon Rivero Juan Carlos CUB 2480 6.0 33.0 49.5 28.50
10 FM Delgado Ramos Hector CUB 2478 6.0 31.5 49.0 31.00
Personal Results
Player info
Name Hansen Eric
Title IM
Starting rank 6
Rating 2539
Rating national 0
Rating international 2539
Ratingperformance 2898
FIDE rtg +/- 30.9
Points 8.5
Rank 1
Federation CAN
Ident-Number 0
Fide-ID 2606771
Rd. Bo. SNo Name Rtg FED Pts. Res.
1 6 43 CM Aizpurua Patrick 2118 PAN 4.0 w 1
2 5 26 IM Ruiz C Joshua D 2332 COL 5.0 s 1
3 3 15 FM Fernandez Cardoso Alexey 2447 CUB 6.0 w 1
4 1 11 IM Alarcon Casellas Rolando 2484 CUB 4.5 s 1
5 1 3 GM Cordova Emilio 2568 PER 7.0 w 1
6 1 5 GM Marin Mihail 2547 ROU 6.5 w 1
7 1 10 IM Hevia Alejano Carlos Antonio 2508 CUB 6.5 s ½
8 1 2 GM Bacallao Alonso Yusnel 2580 CUB 6.5 w 1
9 1 12 FM Obregon Rivero Juan Carlos 2480 CUB 6.0 s 1
Good luck to Eric in the near future!
When you see a …
When you see a good move, look for a better one
–Â Emanuel Lasker
Mexico Photos
Here are just some photos of my two week trip to Mexico! 🙂
Female UNAM International 2012 & UNAM 2nd International Open 2012 – Section I
I arrived one week ago from two amazing chess tournaments in Mexico City, Mexico. With a great two week adventure with my fellow Canadian friends (WCM Alexandra Botez, GM Eric Hansen, and Now IM Aman Hambleton), this period of time will be always treasured in my mind 🙂
Female UNAM International 2012
This is the official poster for the Female UNAM tournament. As you can see, here are all the players within this tournament. 18 players were invited to this event. The players were divided into three sections: A, B, C. I played in Section A, and WCM Alexandra Botez in Section C.
This tournament was simply a great experience for me, especially because I am not a huge fan of rapid tournaments (15m +3s per player) and also, I was the lowest rated in my section, by atleast 100 fide. I managed to win one match against Marina Rizzo WFM 2054 ARG. The tournament was 5 days, and each day you played four games against your opponent. Out of my five matches I still ended up getting 3.5/20, which I believe was a great result for me, personally. Here is the results of every section of the female tournament.
Section A
Rk. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 TB1 TB2 TB3
1 Olga Alexandrova IM 2409 ESP * 3½ 1½ 3½ 4 3½ 8 16.0 0
2 Sulennis Pina Vega WGM 2332 CUB ½ * 2½ 2½ 4 3½ 8 13.0 0
3 Guliskhan Nakhbayeba WGM 2334 KAZ 2½ 1½ * 3 4 2 7 13.0 0
4 Arlette Van Weersel WIM 2168 NED ½ 1½ 1 * 3 4 4 10.0 0
5 Yelizaveta Orlova WCM 1961 CAN 0 0 0 1 * 2½ 2 3.5 0
6 Marina Rizzo WFM 2054 ARG ½ ½ 2 0 1½ * 1 4.5 0
Section B
Rk. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 TB1 TB2 TB3
1 Sopiko Guramishvili IM 2403 GEO * 3 2 3 2 4 8 14.0 0
2 Nafisa Muminova WIM 2349 UZB 1 * 2 2½ 3½ 4 7 13.0 0
3 Nargiz Umodova WIM 2220 AZE 2 2 * 0 2½ 4 6 10.5 0
4 Iva VIdenova WGM 2318 BUL 1 1½ 4 * 2 4 5 12.5 0
5 Elena Partac WGM 2086 MDA 2 ½ 1½ 2 * 4 4 10.0 0
6 Aurora Esquivel De Leon WIM 1965 MEX 0 0 0 0 0 * 0 0.0 0
Section C
Rk. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 TB1 TB2 TB3
1 Lisandra Teresa Ordaz Valdes WGM 2350 * 2½ 2½ 2 4 4 9 15.0 0
2 Ticia Gara WGM 2377 HUN 1½ * 3 2 2 4 6 12.5 0
3 Nino Maisuradze WGM 2315 FRA 1½ 1 * 2½ 3 4 6 12.0 0
4 Irina Andrenko WIM 2233 UKR 2 2 1½ * 2 3 5 10.5 0
5 Alexandra Botez WCM 2015 CAN 0 2 1 2 * 2 3 7.0 0
6 Maria Jose Toro Pradenas WFM 2009 CHI 0 0 0 1 2 * 1 3.0 0
You can find some news about this tournament in ChessBase, see the links below!
http://chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=13644
The Tournament turned out to be a success! I got to know all of the participants, and found out that 14/18 of the women knew Russian! Sucks to be the other 4! I met a lot of interesting people these 5 days, and am greatful for that! After the tournament finished, WCM Alexandra Botez and I realized we would not make it to the next level of the Female Tournament so we got to play in the UNAM 2nd International Open 2012 with our two friends GM Eric Hansen, and before the tournament FM Aman Hambleton.
Photos:
UNAM 2nd International Open 2012 – Section I
This tournament was my very first OPEN international tournament, and even though I did not have the result I wanted, it was still a very great experience for me!
My very first game was an upset, I played against a Mexican IM Garmendez Gonzalez Florentino (Elo: 2298), and lost a winning position. Being low on time for most of the game, and having a huge audience watching, I slowly changed a winning position to a drawn position, finally to a losing position.
This is a photo being taken of myself playing an IM, round 1.
My Second and Third games were well played! I won against a 2120 mexican player, and drew WIM Van Weersel Arlette (Elo: 2168).
Fourth and Fifth round were played badly because of personal reasons, but the 4 remaining rounds I managed to draw all of them.
Every single person I played in this tournament were above me in rating. I am proud of myself either way:)!
Results for Myself
Name Orlova Yelizaveta
Title WCM
Starting rank 126
Rating 1961
Rating national 0
Rating international 1961
Ratingperformance 2038
FIDE rtg +/- 12.3
Points 3.5
Rank 116
Federation CAN
Ident-Number 0
Fide-ID 2601826
Rd. Bo. SNo Name Rtg FED Club/City Pts. Res.
1 41 40 IM Garmendez Gonzalez Florentino 2293 MEX PUE 5.0 w 0
2 45 67 Vega Castaneda Ulises Antonio 2120 MEX D F 5.0 s 1
3 39 58 WIM Van Weersel Arlette 2168 NED 6.5 w ½
4 36 51 IM Navarro Segura Roberto 2198 MEX D F 3.5 s 0
5 54 97 Casillas Pellat Jose De Jesus 2047 MEX D F 3.5 w 0
6 63 113 Waldo Zalapa Alejandro 2004 MEX MCH 3.5 s ½
7 59 89 Ramirez Osio Julio Adrian 2068 MEX QRO 4.0 w ½
8 59 84 Rivera Rodriguez Jesus Camilo 2082 MEX SIN 4.0 s ½
9 52 82 Martinez Sasso Alvaro Antonio 2086 MEX IPN 3.5 w ½
Results for WCM Alexandra Botez
Name Botez Alexandra
Title WCM
Starting rank 105
Rating 2015
Rating national 0
Rating international 2015
Ratingperformance 2032
FIDE rtg +/- 8.7
Points 4
Rank 82
Federation CAN
Ident-Number 0
Fide-ID 2603365
Rd. Bo. SNo Name Rtg FED Club/City Pts. Res.
1 20 18 GM De La Paz Perdomo Frank 2436 CUB 6.5 w 0
2 60 149 Rios Lopez Raul Alfredo 1231 MEX DGO 2.0 s 1
3 31 42 IM Gongora Montes Benjamin 2253 MEX AGS 5.5 w 0
4 63 109 Martinez Rodriguez Miguel 2010 MEX D F 4.0 w 1
5 39 64 Magana Cazares Jesus Cuau 2129 MEX SIN 4.0 s 1
6 34 97 Casillas Pellat Jose De Jesus 2047 MEX D F 3.5 s 1
7 21 37 FM Della Morte Pablo 2308 ARG 6.5 w 0
8 29 56 WFM Forgas Moreno Yaniela 2173 CUB 5.5 s 0
9 38 79 Tello Urquiza Guillermo 2092 MEX D F 5.0 w 0
Results for GM Eric Hansen
Name Hansen Eric
Title IM
Starting rank 8
Rating 2539
Rating national 0
Rating international 2539
Ratingperformance 2459
FIDE rtg +/- -3.5
Points 7
Rank 6
Federation CAN
Ident-Number 0
Fide-ID 2606771
Rd. Bo. SNo Name Rtg FED Club/City Pts. Res.
1 10 94 Beltran Medina Jorge 2057 MEX JAL 4.0 s 1
2 7 64 Magana Cazares Jesus Cuau 2129 MEX SIN 4.0 w 1
3 7 29 WIM Muminova Nafisa 2349 UZB 5.5 s ½
4 7 33 IM Capo Vidal Uriel 2319 MEX HGO 4.5 w 0
5 20 59 Contreras Medina Ruben Dario 2167 MEX TLX 5.0 s ½
6 19 102 Arellano Ramirez Luis Rod 2032 MEX UNM 5.0 w 1
7 12 39 IM Estrada Nieto Julian 2295 MEX MOR 5.5 s 1
8 7 27 FM Dominguez Aguilar Guillermo 2363 MEX IMS 6.0 w 1
9 6 17 IM Otero Acosta Diasmany 2443 CUB 6.0 s 1
Congratulations to Eric for an outstanding comeback! Managed to get tied for 3rd place!
Results for FM Aman Hambleton
Name Hambleton Aman
Title FM
Starting rank 20
Rating 2404
Rating national 0
Rating international 2404
Ratingperformance 2596
FIDE rtg +/- 35.7
Points 7
Rank 3
Federation CAN
Ident-Number 0
Fide-ID 2606577
Rd. Bo. SNo Name Rtg FED Club/City Pts. Res.
1 22 116 Lopez Raygoza Luis Albert 2000 MEX AGS 4.0 s 1
2 17 76 Garduno Vidal Omar 2098 MEX 5.0 w 1
3 1 2 GM Macieja Bartlomiej 2609 POL 8.5 w ½
4 12 69 FM Schaffenburg Ruiz Federico 2116 MEX D F 3.0 s 1
5 4 7 GM Gonzalez Zamora Juan Carlos 2542 MEX D F 6.5 w 1
6 2 6 GM Hernandez Carmenate Holden 2562 CUB 6.5 s ½
7 4 14 GM Martinez Duany Lelys Stanley 2463 CUB 6.5 w 1
8 2 11 GM Dobrov Vladimir 2496 RUS 7.5 s ½
9 2 10 GM Gonzalez Garcia Jose 2497 MEX YUC 7.0 w ½
Congratulations to Aman Hambleton for not only being tied for 3rd place, but also getting his last IM norm and first GM norm! Now Aman is officially an International Master!!
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Welcome to my personal chess website!
I decided it was time for me to have a current website, especially since I am planning to improve myself (chesswise), and will play in International Chess Tournaments in the near future.
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