Happy to see new content from you Ivan! It has been a while :D Thank you for the great recap - educational as always and also covers current events in the chess world! Lets go Nurgyul!
Wiki: "Salimova won the Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship in 2017, after which she was invited to play in the C group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In April 2018, Salimova became the Bulgarian champion in section G16 and 2 days later, Bulgarian blitz champion in the boys' section under 16. ... Salimova scored a WGM norm and a second IM norm in December 2018 at the age of 15 in Zadar, Croatia with a performance of 2492. In April 2019, at the European Women's Individual Chess Championship, Salimova scored her last (valid) WGM norm and became a WGM at the age of 15 years and 10 months. She also earned the right to participate in the Women's World Chess Championship. ... In January 2022, Salimova got her first GM norm at Vergani Cup (January edition), after defeating the former world championship challenger GM Nigel Short. In the 2023 Bulgarian Chess Championships, she ended half a point short of first place. Although she tied for second place with two others (both GMs), Salimova was awarded the silver medal because her tiebreak points were higher. In the tournament, she finished ahead of six GMs and lost only to the champion, Kiril Georgiev." So if it wasn't for covid restrictions she was basically ready for the highest levels of chess years ago.
Thank you for the comment! Personally I have been watching her games more closely since 2019 and definitely love her style and amazed at her improvement. You are right about Covid, it is evident also by her very high rating around that time, even though now she has finally improved it. GM title is not far off!
Happy to see new content from you Ivan! It has been a while :D
Thank you for the great recap - educational as always and also covers current events in the chess world! Lets go Nurgyul!
Wiki:
"Salimova won the Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship in 2017, after which she was invited to play in the C group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In April 2018, Salimova became the Bulgarian champion in section G16 and 2 days later, Bulgarian blitz champion in the boys' section under 16. ...
Salimova scored a WGM norm and a second IM norm in December 2018 at the age of 15 in Zadar, Croatia with a performance of 2492. In April 2019, at the European Women's Individual Chess Championship, Salimova scored her last (valid) WGM norm and became a WGM at the age of 15 years and 10 months. She also earned the right to participate in the Women's World Chess Championship. ...
In January 2022, Salimova got her first GM norm at Vergani Cup (January edition), after defeating the former world championship challenger GM Nigel Short. In the 2023 Bulgarian Chess Championships, she ended half a point short of first place. Although she tied for second place with two others (both GMs), Salimova was awarded the silver medal because her tiebreak points were higher. In the tournament, she finished ahead of six GMs and lost only to the champion, Kiril Georgiev."
So if it wasn't for covid restrictions she was basically ready for the highest levels of chess years ago.
Thank you for the comment! Personally I have been watching her games more closely since 2019 and definitely love her style and amazed at her improvement. You are right about Covid, it is evident also by her very high rating around that time, even though now she has finally improved it.
GM title is not far off!