Which title was conferred to Anna Muzychuk in 2001?
Anna Muzychuk Anna Olehivna Muzychuk ( ; ; born February 28 , 1990 ) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster . From 2004 to 2014 she played for Slovenia . She is the fourth woman , after Judit Polgar , Humpy Koneru and Hou Yifan , to cross the 2600 FIDE Elo rating mark , having achieved a rating of 2606 in July 2012 . Muzychuk won the Womens World Rapid Chess Championship in 2016 , and the Womens World Blitz Chess Championship in 2014 and 2016 . Career . Muzychuk was taught to play chess at the age of two by her parents , both professional chess coaches . She played her first tournament at five and in the same year she placed second in the under-10 girls championship of Lviv Oblast . 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 Womens 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 . She played for the club from Ljubljana and for the Olympiad Slovenian national team . She represented them first in junior and then in adult tournaments , becoming the strongest female chess player in Slovenia and the third best female player in the world . Muzychuk continued to play for Slovenia even when while she lived in Stryi ( Ukraine ) , and her younger sister Mariya , twice represented the Ukrainian national team . In 2007 , she won the European womens blitz chess championship and finished second in the European womens rapid chess championship , both held in Predeal , Romania . Muzychuk was awarded the titles of International Master in 2007 and Grandmaster in 2012 . In 2010 , she played in the Corus chess tournament Group B , finishing 10th with a score of 5½/13 and a performance of 2583 . In the same year , Muzychuk won the World Junior Girls Championship in Chotowa , Poland . She won the bronze medal in the Womens European Individual Chess Championship of 2012 . In the same year Muzychuk took part in the ACP Golden Classic in Amsterdam along with Vassily Ivanchuk , Gata Kamsky , Emil Sutovsky , Le Quang Liem , Krishnan Sasikiran and Baadur Jobava . It was a round-robin tournament in which the rate of play was two hours and half for forty moves followed in case by adjournment . She finished fourth with a score of 3/6 and a rating performance of 2721 . Muzychuk finished fourth in the 2014 Tata Steel Challengers tournament , scoring 8/13 In April 2014 Muzychuk won the Womens World Blitz Championship . In May 2014 , she returned to the Ukrainian chess federation . Muzychuk won the 2014 Ukrainian womens championship in Lviv . In January 2016 , she won the womens first prize at the Masters tournament of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival . In December 2016 , in Doha , she won the Womens World Rapid Championship , and two days later she defended her Womens Blitz World Championship title . In March 2017 , she finished second in the Womens World Chess Championship 2017 in Tehran . In October 2017 , she won the ACP European Womens Rapid Championship in Monte Carlo . In November 2017 she announced she would boycott the 2017 Womens World Speed Chess Championship , to be held in Saudi Arabia , due to Saudi Arabias rules regarding women . On her Facebook page she commented : Team competitions . Muzychuk played on the top board for Slovenia in the Womens Chess Olympiads of 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 and 2012 . In her first Olympiad , in 2004 , she defeated , among others , the then-reigning womens world champion , Antoaneta Stefanova . In 2006 the Slovenian team , seeded 17th , finished tenth . In the 2014 Womens Chess Olympiad , Muzychuk played on the top board for the Ukrainian team which gathered third place behind Russia and China . In the 2015 Womens European Team Chess Championship , she contributed to Ukraines silver medal . In the 2016 Womens Chess Olympiad , team Ukraine won the silver medal and Muzychuk also won the individual gold medal for the best performance on board 1 . Personal life . Her younger sister Mariya was the 2015 Womens World Chess Champion . She lives in Stryi with her parents and her sister . External links . - Anna Muzychuk chess games at 365Chess.com - Interview with Anna Muzychuk at Grandcoach.com