Alisa Galliamova

In this name that followsEastern Slavic naming customs,thepatronymicisMikhailovnaand thefamily nameisGalliamova.

Alisa Galliamova
Galliamova in 2018
Full name	Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova Алиса Михайловна Галлямова
Country	Soviet Union(until 1992) Ukraine(1992–1996) Russia(since 1996)
Born	(1972-01-18)18 January 1972 Kazan,Tatar ASSR,Russian SFSR,Soviet Union
Title	International Master(1993) Woman Grandmaster(1988)
Peak rating	2560 (July 1998)

Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova(Russian:Алиса Михайловна Галлямова,Tatar:Алисә Михаил кызы Галләмова;born 18 January 1972 inKazan)is a Russianchessplayer who holds theFIDE titlesof International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is twice runner-up at theWomen's World Chess Championship,in 1999 and 2006, and three-timeRussian women's champion(1997, 2009, 2010). She was known as "Alisa Galliamova-Ivanchuk" from 1993 to 2001.

She played for the gold medal-winning Russian team at the2010 Women's Chess Olympiadand for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the 1992 Women'sEuropean Team Chess Championship.

Career

Galliamova won theWorld Under-16 Girls' Championshipin 1987 and 1988. In 1988 she also won theWorld Junior Girls Championship.

She won the 1992 European Team Championship, got two silver medals at the 1990 and 1992 Chess Olympiads, as well as bronze in 1996. She also won multiple personal championships in Russia.

Women's World Chess Championship 1999

In December 1997, she won theCandidates Tournament for the Women's World Chess Championshipheld inGroningen,Netherlands.She was scheduled to play a match withXie Jun(who finished second in the 1997 Candidates Tournament) in August 1998, and the winner of that match was supposed to play a match in November 1998 withZsuzsa Polgarfor theWomen's World Chess Championship.

However, after the match with Xie Jun had already been scheduled, Galliamova objected because the entire match was scheduled to be played in China, the home of her rival. The reason for this was because only China had bid for the match. Galliamova wanted half of the match to be played inKazan,Russia.However, the Russians did not have the money required.Finally, when Galliamova failed to show up to play the match, the match was declared forfeited to Xie Jun.

FIDEthen scheduled a match between Xie Jun and Zsuzsa Polgar for November 1998. However, Polgar said that she could not play at that time because she was pregnant. After Polgar had given birth to her first son, Tom, in March 1999, FIDE again tried to schedule a match. This time Polgar said that she could not play the match because she was nursing.

Finally, after repeated efforts to organize a match which was supposed to have taken place in 1998, FIDE declared that Polgar had forfeited her title and that the title was vacant.FIDE decided to let Galliamova back into the cycle and held a match between Xie Jun and Galliamova for theWomen's World Chess Championship 1999.This time, Galliamova was willing to play because her original demand had been met in that Russia had come up with the money to sponsor half of the match. The match was held inKazan,Russia,andShenyang,China,in August 1999, and Xie Jun won with a score of 8.5–6.5.

Further career

In March 2006, Galliamova again reached the finals of theFIDE Women's World Championship,competing againstXu Yuhua.

In 2017, she was third in theEuropean Women's ChampionshipinRiga.

Personal life

She was born toRussianfather andTatarmother (Galliamova is the last name of her mother).

Galliamova was married to UkrainianGrandmasterVasyl Ivanchuk,one of the top rated players in the world. The couple had a son, Michael.The marriage ended in a divorce in 1996.

Since 2005, the Children's Chess Tournament - Alisa Galliamova Cup - has been held in Tatarstan. Galliamova founded the Children's Chess School, which holds annual sports camps for the republic's most talented children.

External links

• Alisa Galliamovarating card atFIDE
• Alisa GalliamovaFIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
• Alisa Galliamovachess games at 365Chess
• Alisa Galliamovaplayer profile and games atChessgames