International Master
Which title was conferred to Anna Ushenina in 2007?
Anna Ushenina Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina ( ; born 30 August 1985 ) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Womens World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013 . Personal life . Ushenina lives in Kharkiv , where she was born . She is of Jewish ethnicity . Determined that the young Ushenina should develop intellectual and creative talents , her mother introduced her to chess at the age of seven , along with painting and music . She became the Ukrainian Girls ( under 20 ) champion at 15 years . Many of her chess skills have been self-taught , although in 2000–2002 , she studied chess in the Kharkiv sports school of Olympic reserve . During this period , her coach was International Master Artiom Tsepotan . Afterwards she received more coaching at a specialist facility in Kramatorsk . National success . At the national Ukrainian Womens Championship , her progress and achievements have been noteworthy . In 2003 ( Mykolaiv ) and 2004 ( Alushta ) , she finished in fourth and sixth places respectively , thereafter becoming the champion at Alushta in 2005 , and outperforming top seed Tatjana Vasilevich along the way . She almost repeated this success at Odessa in 2006 , finishing second , but ahead of the higher rated Natalia Zhukova and Inna Gaponenko . At these combined ( men and women ) events , she has defeated grandmasters of the calibre of Anton Korobov and Oleg Romanishin and in Ukraine was endowed with the title Honored Master of Sports . Team performances . Her many successes in team chess reached an early pinnacle in 2006 . At the Turin Womens Olympiad she was a part of the victorious Ukrainian team and remained undefeated throughout the contest . Ushenina and her compatriots Natalia Zhukova ( also undefeated ) , Kateryna Lagno and Inna Gaponenko each scored between 70 and 80% , in what was a commanding performance , earning them team gold medals and much adulation in chess circles . In 2008 , at the Dresden Olympiad , Ukraines ladies took home the team silver medals , after failing to oust the powerful Georgian team from the top spot . For Ushenina , her earliest major medal-winning performance occurred in Balatonlelle , at the European Team Championship for Girls ( under 18 ) in 2002 , where she took team gold and individual silver on board 1 . On another occasion at the 2007 Womens World Team Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg , she helped Ukraine to a bronze medal finish and added an individual bronze to her tally . She has also played twice at the European Team Chess Championship , in 2005 and 2007 . The team finished outside of the medal places each time , but for her personal performance , Ushenina took individual gold at the latter event , held in Heraklion , with 5/7 . A very active league chess player , she regularly plays in the national leagues of France , Russia , Serbia , Montenegro and Slovenia . Tournaments and titles . Tournament successes at Kiev in 2001 and Odessa in 2003 , earned her the title Woman Grandmaster ( WGM ) , awarded in 2003 . Her performance at the 2006 Womens Chess Olympiad and subsequent results in Pardubice and Abu Dhabi in the same year then qualified her for the International Master ( IM ) title , awarded in January 2007 . In the A2 section of the prestigious Aeroflot Open in Moscow 2007 , she scored 5 points from the first 7 rounds , defeating three male grandmasters for a part performance rating of 2672 . In January 2008 , she played in the Group C of the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee scoring 4½/13 points . Soon after , at the womens section of the Moscow Open , she took second place , behind Anna Muzychuk , and ahead of Natalia Zhukova and Kateryna Lagno . Later that year , at the Womens European Individual Chess Championship , held in Plovdiv , she took the bronze medal , losing out 1–2 to Viktorija Čmilytė in the playoffs for silver . In 2010 , she won the Rector Cup in Kharkiv with a performance rating of 2649 . In 2016 , she won the European Womens Championship in Mamaia , edging out on tie-break score Sabrina Vega , after both players had scored 8.5/11 points . She won the silver medal in the second GM group at the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Israel . Womens World Champion . In the final of the Womens World Chess Championship 2012 she achieved a tiebreak victory over Antoaneta Stefanova to become the 14th Womens World Chess Champion . This automatically entitled her to the title of grandmaster and also qualified her to the 2013 Chess World Cup . She is Ukraines first womens world chess champion and thanks to this victory Ushenina was voted Ukraines best female chess player of 2012 . She lost her title against Hou Yifan in the Womens World Chess Championship 2013 .