Yelizaveta Orlova for CFC Women's Coordinator 2013

Yelizaveta Orlova is running for Women's Coordinator.

Simultaneous Exhbition at OYCC 2013.

'The past year, I have been trying my best to get more girls in Canada to play chess, popularize specifically women chess, and I have been playing in International events to show the world we do have some women chess players!'-Orlova on Chestalk

Why Choose Orlova?

'Why choose me be the Women's Coordinator?'

Answer:

'I have represented Canada on many international events, and would love to see more and more girls/female players in our chess community. I am very ambitious, and will try my very best for Canadian Chess.'

High Profile and Active
'On numerous events in the past year, I did couple of Simultaneous Exhibitions to popularize women chess in Canada.

2012-Two Simuls at the Seneca Chess Club
2013-Simuls at the Ontario Youth Chess Championship and Ontario Girls' Chess Championship.

I have many international fans and followers who check my blog/facebook page non-stop.'

See Website and Facebook

Orlova,Y-Toronto Standard Article (April 23-2013)

Orlova is in the news.
See her site or Youtube Channel BeautyandChessGeek too.

Meet Yelizaveta Orlova, Canada's Teenage Chess Ambassador
From the Toronto Standard April 23.

Yelizaveta Orlova

Photo by Monica Chung

Yelizaveta Orlova's new endgame is to raise the profile of chess for women in Canada. The 18-year old has has been declared a Woman National Master in Canada. She has represented Canada twice at the World Chess Olympiad.

The number of women playing competitive chess in Canada is dismally low - only 60 active players. The Canadian Federation of Chess (CFC) recently introduced the new titles of Women’s National Master (2100) and Women’s National Candidate Master (1900) as an incentive for women to play and stay involved with the game.

Chess is typically the domain of males, conjuring images of child prodigies and socially-inept eccentrics.

"There's a stereotype in North America about people who play chess," says Orlova. "It’s assumed that if you play chess that you're not popular, it's not cool. People join the chess club that can’t fit in anywhere else."

Orlova was taught how to play chess when she was four years old. Both her father and grandfather were accomplished players - her grandfather was an American Master. When she was nine, her father brought her to a simultaneous exhibition where she played an International Master, and it ended up in a draw. She decided to start playing seriously.

She grew to become the fourth highest rated female chess player in Canada. In her native Ukraine, chess was taught in the school system. Here, it's an anomaly to see a female chess player. "Here, if a girl plays chess, people are very interested because they don’t see a lot of girls play."

Her longest game took six hours, but that is atypical. Orlova says that the game puts her into a focused, meditative state where time goes by unnoticed. She enjoys the calm, logical march of chess, and the mannered culture of studiousness and respect that it encourages. Her forte is the middle game: the positional portion where there are lots of pieces on the board.

"You’re persuading your opponent to make bad moves. Setting them up in a trap," grins Orlova. This is in contrast to many who prefer the finishing moves of the end game.

Orlova wants to get more women playing chess to raise the bar competitively.

Although women can technically compete against men in open tournaments, females have their own set of ratings. Many players take offense to the fact that chess, despite being a non-physical game, still separates females into their own category.

Orlova supports this division, telling me that most women she has competed against play a more emotional game.

 "People say that everything is much more interesting when you watch the females play than the males. The males tend go with the positional element, whereas the females try to attack. Males are less aggressive while women want to give it all they got."

In open tournaments, particularly in Canada, Orlova thinks that girls may occasionally have a small advantage in competing against guys.

"If a woman plays against a guy, it's usual. I play against guys all the time. But if a guy plays against a girl, its very unusual. I feel like a lot of guys start worrying, ‘Well, she's a woman so I need to win.’ They have that mentality. I feel like they’re more worried to lose."

Orlova claims there is a significant drop in girls playing chess when they reach high school. At 14, she quit playing chess for a year and a half, a decision she deeply regrets now.

"I finally smartened up. High school is only four years of your life. So I don’t understand why I have to be so self-conscious about playing chess. Chess is a smart, logical game. It makes me laugh that they think it's not cool.

In high school, all the conversations are all 'Oh do you know? He's dating that girl?' In chess, they wouldn’t talk about that kind of stuff. That would be absurd. I am very happy that I didn't give up chess.

I realized I shouldn’t be degrading myself to them. In grade nine, everybody’s worried about what people think. So I think people kind of forgave me, for dropping out for that year and a half," she jokes.(more)

More Orlova Interviews for Beauty and Chess Geek

Fresh Interviews BeautyandChessGeek
More Orlova interviews from her Youtube channel.

Beauty and Chess Geek-Ipatov Interview

Here's the latest video from BeautyandChessGeek done by Orlova in Reykjavik.

Orlova says 'Hi' from Reykjavik

Orlova's site YelizavetaOrlova

Her Youtube Channel BeautyandChessGeek 

Reykjavik Open 2013 Rd10 Standings

Results Chess-results Site Reykjavikopen 2013
Hambleton won his last two games to finish with a respectable 6.5/10.

'Pavel Eljanov and Wesley so finish on top with 8 points after their mutual draw but Amin Baseem managed to catch up with his last round victory.'-Tournament site report 

SNo		Name	FIDE	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pts.
39	FM	Hambleton Aman	2472	1	½	½	½	½	1	½	0	1	1	6.5
125		Murray Michael A.	2017	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	5
139	WCM	Orlova Yelizaveta	1978	0	1	0	½	0	0	1	½	1	½	4.5

Hambleton Results by Round

FM Hambleton Aman 2472 CAN Rp:2343 Pts. 6.5

Rd.	SNo		Name	RtgI	FED	Pts.	Res.
1	152		Leimeister Winfried	1909	GER	4	w 1
2	93		Omarsson Dadi	2212	ISL	6	s ½
3	90		Wang Yiye	2226	CHN	5.5	w ½
4	88		Karason Askell O	2235	ISL	5	s ½
5	102		Maack Kjartan	2136	ISL	5.5	w ½
6	76	FM	Cubas Pons Juan Miguel	2284	ESP	6	s 1
7	47	NM	Norowitz Yaacov	2432	USA	7.5	w ½
8	73	WGM	Cherednichenko Svetlana	2307	UKR	6.5	s 0
9	81	FM	Jayakumar Adarsh	2271	USA	5.5	w 1
10	71	IM	Muir Andrew J	2313	SCO	5.5	s 1

Orlova Results by Round

WCM Orlova Yelizaveta 1978 CAN Rp:1764 Pts. 4.5

Rd.	SNo		Name	RtgI	FED	Pts.	Res.
1	26	GM	Maze Sebastien	2556	FRA	6	w 0
2	196		Ramtin Raman	1661	IRI	2	s 1
3	70	FM	Kvisvik Brede	2314	NOR	5.5	w 0
4	202		Jacobsen Trond	1610	NOR	2.5	s ½
5	209		Davidsdottir Nansy	1479	ISL	3.5	w 0
6	175		Bauza Mercere Eduardo	1809	ARG	3.5	s 0
7	218		Hrafnsson Hilmir	1331	ISL	3	s 1
8	185		Leosson Atli Johann	1736	ISL	4.5	w ½
9	189		Seim Fredrik	1714	NOR	4	s 1
10	176		Hyotyla Tapio	1792	SUI	4.5	w ½

Reykjavik Open 2013 Rd8 Standings

Rd8 Chess-results Also see Reykjavikopen 2013
Hambleton lost to WGM Cherednichenko, Svetlana(2307).

SNo		Name	RtgI	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pts.
39	FM	Hambleton Aman	2472	CAN	1	½	½	½	½	1	½	0	4.5
125		Murray Michael A.	2017	CAN	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	4
139	WCM	Orlova Yelizaveta	1978	CAN	0	1	0	½	0	0	1	½	3

Hambleton's results by round
Rating performance is 2261.

Rd.	SNo		Name	RtgI	FED	Pts.	Result
1	152		Leimeister Winfried	1909	GER	3.5	w 1
2	93		Omarsson Dadi	2212	ISL	4.5	s ½
3	90		Wang Yiye	2226	CHN	5	w ½
4	88		Karason Askell O	2235	ISL	4	s ½
5	102		Maack Kjartan	2136	ISL	4	w ½
6	76	FM	Cubas Pons Juan Miguel	2284	ESP	5	s 1
7	47	NM	Norowitz Yaacov	2432	USA	5.5	w ½
8	73	WGM	Cherednichenko Svetlana	2307	UKR	5.5	s 0

Orlova's results by round
Rating performance is 1725.

Rd.	SNo		Name	RtgI	FED	Pts.	Result
1	26	GM	Maze Sebastien	2556	FRA	4.5	w 0
2	196		Ramtin Raman	1661	IRI	2	s 1
3	70	FM	Kvisvik Brede	2314	NOR	4	w 0
4	202		Jacobsen Trond	1610	NOR	2.5	s ½
5	209		Davidsdottir Nansy	1479	ISL	2.5	w 0
6	175		Bauza Mercere Eduardo	1809	ARG	2.5	s 0
7	218		Hrafnsson Hilmir	1331	ISL	2	s 1
8	185		Leosson Atli Johann	1736	ISL	3	w ½

Reykjavik Open 2013 Rd6-Orlova Y

Here is Orlova's rd6 game. An easy to overlook intermediate move cost Orlova a piece.

Bauza Mercere,Eduardo (1809) - Orlova,Yelizaveta (1978)
Sicilian 4…Qb6[B32]
Reykjavik Open 2013, Iceland (6.88), 23.02.2013

Position 1
White wants to attack but how to break down the kingside?

White to Play

30..Bg5

Reykjavik Open 2013 Rd7 Standings

Round 7 Results Chess-results
Hambleton drew in round 7 to climb to 4.5/7 while Orlova and Murry both won as well.

Title	Name	RtgI	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Pts.
FM	Hambleton Aman	2472	CAN	1	½	½	½	½	1	½	4.5
	Murray Michael A.	2017	CAN	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	3
WCM	Orlova Yelizaveta	1978	CAN	0	1	0	½	0	0	1	2.5

Reykjavik Open 2013 Rd5 Standings

Rd5 chess-results
Hambleton drew Maack Kjartan(2136).

Orlova, Yelizaveta

SNo		Name	FIDE	1	2	3	4	5	Pts.	Rk.
39	FM	Hambleton Aman	2472	1	½	½	½	½	3	81
125		Murray Michael A.	2017	0	1	0	1	0	2	146
139	WCM	Orlova Yelizaveta	1978	0	1	0	½	0	1.5	185

Reykjavik Open 2013 Rd3 Standings

For full results see Chess-results
Hambleton continues his modest starts with a draw. Orlova lost a tough game where both sides had their chances.

SNo		Name	RtgI	RtgN	FED	1	2	3	Pts.
39	FM	Hambleton Aman	2472	0	CAN	1	½	½	2
125		Murray Michael A.	2017	2037	CAN	0	1	0	1
139	WCM	Orlova Yelizaveta	1978	0	CAN	0	1	0	1

Here is the action packed rd3 Orlova game. Black had the early chances but got sloppy which allowed Orlova to get a completely winning game. Unfortunately, she failed to capitalize and eventually lost a R-R ending.

Orlova,Yelizaveta (1978) - Kvisvik,Brede (2314)
d4 unusual[A04]
Reykjavik Open 2013 Reykjavik, Iceland (3.50), 20.02.2013

Position 1
Both sides are attacking each other on the kingside in a sharp position. What do you suggest for white?

White to Play

38..Re8

Reykjavik Open 2013 Rd2(CAN) Standings

Rd2 Chess-results
IM Hambleton had to concede a draw to Omarsson, Dadi(ISL(2212)

SNo		Name	RtgI	FED	1	2	Pts.
39	FM	Hambleton Aman	2472	CAN	1	½	1.5
125		Murray Michael A.	2017	CAN	0	1	1
139	WCM	Orlova Yelizaveta	1978	CAN	0	1	1

Reykjavik Open 2013 Rd1-Orlova

Orolva got her king caught in a nasty attack after castling queenside. See also  her website yelizavetaorlova and her Youtube channel BeautyandChessGeek

Orlova,Yelizaveta (1978) - Maze,Sebastien (2556)
1.b3 [A01]
Reykjavik Open 2013, Iceland (1.27), 19.02.2013

Position 1
White's pieces are precariously placed. What should black do now?

Black to Play

25.Rde1

Reykjavik Open 2013 Rd1 CAN Results

Results chess-results
IM Hambleton won as expected.

'Some upsets in round 1. We already had a 1900 player beating a 2478 but there was also an upset when the Icelandic Ingibjörg Edda Birgisdóttir (1783) beat the Dutch IM David Miedema.
Some draws as well. Tinna Kristín Finnbogadóttir, another Icelandic female player drew against German IM Martin Zumzande(2419). Sigurður Páll Steindórsson (2235) allowed a draw against 1610 rated Norwegian.
The young Dagur Ragnarsson from Iceland (1961) drew GM Yilmaz from Turkey (2531).'-Nice tournament site has more Reykjavikopen Lots-of-upsets

Rd.	Bo.		Name	Rtg	Result		Name	Rtg
1	12		Murray Michael A.	2017	0-1	GM	Socko Bartosz	2643
1	27	WCM	Orlova Yelizaveta	1978	0-1	GM	Maze Sebastien	2556
1	40	FM	Hambleton Aman	2472	1-0		Leimeister Winfried	1909

Orlova on Youtube

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Reykjavik Open 2013 Registered as of Feb 4 2013

Pre-registered Chess-results
Tournament site Reykjavikopen 2013

Action is from February 19-27th.

Canadians registered
IM Hambleton Aman see blog AmanHambleton
WCM Orlova Yelizaveta see blog YelizavetaOrlova

Hambleton will be looking for a GM norm and drive his rating further up.

 Orlova, Yelizaveta

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	FRA	2715
2	GM	Navara David	CZE	2710
3	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	BUL	2709
4	GM	Ding Liren	CHN	2709
5	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2690
6	GM	Yu Yangyi	CHN	2688
7	GM	Eljanov Pavel	UKR	2678
8	GM	Bu Xiangzhi	CHN	2675
9	GM	Gajewski Grzegorz	POL	2644
10	GM	Sokolov Ivan	NED	2644
11	GM	Socko Bartosz	POL	2643
12	GM	Jones Gawain C B	ENG	2637
13	GM	Amin Bassem	EGY	2631
14	GM	Miton Kamil	POL	2626
15	GM	Kuzubov Yuriy	UKR	2622
16	GM	L Ami Erwin	NED	2622
17	GM	Baklan Vladimir	UKR	2609
18	GM	Solak Dragan	TUR	2603
19	GM	Dziuba Marcin	POL	2602
20	GM	Kaidanov Gregory	USA	2598
21	GM	Kovchan Alexander	UKR	2580
22	GM	Ipatov Alexander	TUR	2569
23	GM	Oleksienko Mikhailo	UKR	2568
24	GM	Grandelius Nils	SWE	2566
25	GM	Halkias Stelios	GRE	2566
26	GM	Esen Baris	TUR	2565
27	GM	Shulman Yury	USA	2563
28	GM	Maze Sebastien	FRA	2556
29	GM	Kveinys Aloyzas	LTU	2533
30	GM	Yilmaz Mustafa	TUR	2531
31	GM	Xiu Deshun	CHN	2530
32	IM	Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn	ISL	2509
33	GM	Danielsen Henrik	ISL	2507
34	FM	Wei Yi	CHN	2501
35	GM	Stefansson Hannes	ISL	2496
36	GM	Kristjánsson Stefán	ISL	2486
37	IM	Smith Axel	SWE	2485
38	WGM	Huang Qian	CHN	2478
39	IM	Urkedal Frode	NOR	2473
40	FM	Hambleton Aman	CAN	2472
41	IM	Lou Yiping	CHN	2468
42	WGM	Tan Zhongyi	CHN	2466
43	IM	Andersen Mads	DEN	2462
44	IM	Krush Irina	USA	2460
45	IM	Akshayraj Kore	IND	2455
46	GM	Thorhallsson Throstur	ISL	2441
47	IM	Schreiner Peter	AUT	2439
48	IM	Bartholomew John	USA	2435
49	WGM	Guo Qi	CHN	2431
50	IM	Kjartansson Gudmundur	ISL	2430
51	IM	Zumsande Martin	GER	2419
52	IM	Guramishvili Sopiko	GEO	2414
53	IM	Gunnarsson Jon Viktor	ISL	2413
54	IM	Hagen Andreas	DEN	2411
55	IM	Li Wenliang	CHN	2411
56	IM	Diermair Andreas	AUT	2407
57	IM	Ris Robert	NED	2407
58	IM	Bekker-Jensen Simon	DEN	2405
59	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2397
60	IM	Thorfinnsson Bjorn IM	ISL	2386
61	IM	Arngrimsson Dagur	ISL	2375
62		Wang Jue	CHN	2375
63	FM	Handler Lukas	AUT	2369
64	WGM	Mammadova Gulnar	AZE	2369
65	IM	Miedema David -	NED	2364
66	WGM	L Ami Alina	ROU	2362
67	IM	Thinius Marco	GER	2354
68	WGM	Kashlinskaya Alina	RUS	2350
69	FM	Bewersdorff Oliver	GER	2335
70	FM	Gislason Gudmundur	ISL	2329
71	FM	Kvisvik Brede	NOR	2314
72	IM	Muir Andrew J Mr	SCO	2313
73	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	2312
74	WGM	Cherednichenko Svetlana	UKR	2307
75	FM	Lagerman Róbert	ISL	2304
76	FM	Andreasen Per	DEN	2302
77		AMEWOUNOU KOMLAN KOUESSAN	TGO	2300
78	FM	Jensson Einar Hjalti	ISL	2300
79	IM	Prosviriakov Vladimir	USA	2297
80	FM	Cubas Pons Juan	ESP	2284
81	WIM	Schut Lisa	NED	2283
82	FM	Malmdin Nils-Ake	SWE	2281
83	WGM	Mamedjarova Turkan	AZE	2280
84		Wahlbom Magnus	SWE	2279
85	FM	Ekeberg Carl Fredrik	NOR	2274
86	WGM	Ptacnikova Lenka	ISL	2269
87	IM	Bogdan Borsos	UKR	2260
88	FM	Thompson Ian	ENG	2260
89		Beeke Bob	NED	2257
90	FM	Thorsteinsson Thorsteinn	ISL	2251
91		Schou-Moldt Thomas	DEN	2236
92		Kárason Áskell Örn	ISL	2235
93		Wang Yiye	CHN	2226
94		Juegel Marcel	GER	2224
95		Bird Andrew	AUS	2223
96		Halldorsson Jón	ISL	2222
97	FM	Einarsson Halldor Gretar	ISL	2218
98	FM	Valenti Giuseppe	ITA	2204
99	WFM	Frisk Ellinor	SWE	2197
100		Halldorsson Bragi	ISL	2180
101		Thorvaldsson Jon	ISL	2152
102	FM	Bjornsson Tomas	ISL	2151
103		Gylfi Þórhallsson	ISL	2141
104		Alberto Manuel	ANG	2140
105		Maack Kjartan	ISL	2136
106	WFM	Newrkla Katharina	AUT	2135
107	IM	Bjarnason Saevar	ISL	2133
108	FM	Bjerke Richard	NOR	2131
109		Herbold Manfred	GER	2125
110		Van Heirzeele Daniel	BEL	2125
111		Drill Frank	GER	2124
112		Palsson Halldor	ISL	2078
113		Frick Renato	LIE	2075
114		Raddatz Michael	GER	2075
115		Mihajlov Svetoslav	NOR	2071
116		Marentini Marcel	SUI	2069
117		Hoegener Claude	LUX	2059
118		Mihajlov Sebastian	NOR	2059
119		Palmqvist Fredrik	SWE	2050
120		Ragnarsson Jóhann H	ISL	2046
121		Doell Detlef	GER	2044
122	WFM	Thorsteinsdottir Gudlaug	ISL	2041
123		Haraldsson Leif	SWE	2028
124		Murray Mike	USA	2017
125		Isaksson Per	SWE	2016
126		Michel Steve	NED	2008
127		Gunnarsson Sigurður Jón	ISL	2000
128		Pretterhofer Kiaras	AUT	1997
129		Andreasen Jakup A.R.	FAI	1992
130		Torgersen Terje	NOR	1992
131		Kleinert Jürgen	GER	1991
132		Karlsson Mikael Johann	ISL	1990
133		Sverrisson Nökkvi	ISL	1990
134		Ofstad Sigurd	NOR	1985
135		Vigfusson Vigfus	ISL	1985
136		Karlsson Robin	SWE	1980
137	WCM	Orlova Yelizaveta	CAN	1978
138		Newrkla Alexander	AUT	1969
139		Ragnarsson Dagur	ISL	1961
140		Thorsteinsdottir Hallgerdur Helga	ISL	1960
141		Bjornes Leif	NOR	1957
142		Birgisson Ingvar Örn	ISL	1953
143		Meier Gerd	GER	1949
144		Ryabov Igor	RUS	1946
145		Kuehnast Volker	GER	1936
146		Sæmundsson Bjarni	ISL	1935
147		Valencia Juan Pablo	CHI	1926
148		Safwat Mohamed	EGY	1922
149		Herda Christoph Dr.	GER	1915
150		Helin Mikael	SWE	1910