Ekaterina Atalik

Ekaterina Atalik
Ekaterina Atalik
Country	Russia (until 2005); Turkey (since 2005)
Born	14 November 1982 (age 42); Kirov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title	International Master (2007); Woman Grandmaster (2001)
Peak rating	2481 (September 2011)

Ekaterina Atalik (née Polovnikova; born 14 November 1982 in Kirov)^[1] is a Russian-Turkish chess player, who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

She won the European Youth Chess Championship in the under-16 girls' section in 1997.

In 2005, she married Grandmaster Suat Atalık from Turkey, and obtained Turkish citizenship.^[2] She took clear second place, behind her husband, at the 3rd Mediterranean Chess Championship, held from 31 January to 8 February 2006 in Antalya, and was declared Mediterranean women's champion.^[3]

In April 2006 she won the 7th European Women's Chess Championship in Kuşadası, Turkey.^[4] Atalik also won the Turkish women's championship in 2008 and 2016.^[5]

In January 2016, she took clear first place in the 15th Prague Open with a score of 8/9, a full point ahead of the nearest followers.^[6]

Notable games

^ "Ekaterina Atalik: "We Don't Expect Support from Anybody Other Than Our Lawyers"". chess-news.ru. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
^ Short, Nigel (11 November 2005). "World Junior Championships begin". ChessBase. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
^ Crowther, Mark (13 February 2006). "TWIC 588: 3rd Mediterranean Championship". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
^ "Ekaterina Atalik and Zdenko Kozul European Champions". ChessBase. 16 April 2006. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
^ "2016 Arzum Türkiye Kadınlar Şampiyonu IM Ekaterina Atalık". kadinlar2016.tsf.org.tr (in Turkish). Turkish Chess Federation. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
^ "IM Ekaterina Atalik convincing winner of 15th Prague International". FIDE. 16 January 2016. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2016.