The 15th Prague International Chess Tournament was taking place from January 8th to January 15th, at the Olympik Hotel**** in Czech capital Prague. The event was a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament, organized by AVE-Kontakt. IM, WGM Ekaterina Atalik emerge...
Husband vs Wife
Match Suat Atalik – Ekaterina Atalik Chalkida Chess Academy “Palamedes of Evia” hosted a friendly chess match between Turkish Grandmaster Suat Atalik and his wife IM/WGM Ekaterina Atalik in Halkida, Greece between 7th and 9th August. This unique event...
Atalik leads Baltic Queen
A loss by Pia Cramling to Elisabeth Paehtz in round 7 caused her to drop out of the top spot. This clears the way for Ekaterina Atalik to gain the clear lead at the Baltic Queen tournament with 2...
Atalik, Cramling maintain big lead at Baltic Queen
Round 5: August 15th 15:00 Zhukova, Natalia 2465 – Peng, Zhaoqin 2418 ½-½ Atalik, Ekaterina 2434 – Paehtz, Elisabeth 2474 1-0 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2506 – Bodnaruk, Anastasia 2388 1-0 Cramling, Pia 2525 – Demina, Julia 2378 1-0 Cmilyte, Viktorija...
Cramling, Atalik lead Baltic Queen
Round 3 results: Atalik, Ekaterina – Demina, Julia 1-0 Cramling, Pia – Cmilyte, Viktorija 1-0 Paehtz, Elisabeth – Peng Zhaoqin ½ Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan – Turova, Irina 1-0 Zhukova, Natalia – Bodnaruk, Anastasia ½ Standing after 3 rounds: 1-2. Atalik,...
More fireworks in Turkey for the ladies
GM Cramling defeated IM Dronavalli and IM Atalik defeated IM Ushenina while Yifan Hou drew Xue to set set a 3 way tie for the lead one again. Irina lost to the lowest rated player of the event and...
Endgame mistakes
Position after 42.Rxe3 It is hard to imagine that Black could lose this position, especially when Black is more than 100 points higher than White. Atalik, Ekaterina (IM) – Chen, Zhu (GM)Ataturk International WomenIstanbul (3), 13.03.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4...