Kazakhs chess princess became an international master at 11

11-year-old Kazakhs chess Zhansaya Abdumalik can get into the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest International Master.  This title she won by winning the tournament for girls up to 20 years in Indonesia.Chess Federation of Kazakhstan has sent a letter to the International Federation with a request to record this achievement .

In the chess world 11-year-old kazahstanka Zhansaya Abdumalik - a figure well known. She has already 19 gold medals of various international tournaments.Three times she won the title of world champion. But perhaps the most precious medal Zhansaya received in Indonesia. She won the tournament for girls under 20 years old and received the title of International Master. Now, her name can get into the Guinness Book of Records. The previous record belonged to the Egyptian woman Moni Hallett.

Daniyar Ashirov, father and coach Zhansai Abdumalik:

- Has it fulfilled this rate in 11 years 7 months 16 days. Zhansae awarded this title in 11 years 5 months 6 days. That is, there are 2 months 10 days difference. Chess Federation has already sent a request to FIDE.Now waiting for official notification.

Zhansaya Abdumalik, world champion in chess:

- I work 6 hours a day playing chess and 2:00 swim, I love to swim, because of this physical training. This has given me strength. I can sit at the board more than 5 hours. So I play with adults.

Play Chess Zhansaya start in five years. And two years later became a champion of the country. Compete more often than she has with boys and with older athletes. He says with her peers already interested. Now the 11-year-old chess player wants to win the world championship for women.

Zhansaya Abdumalik, world champion in chess:

- I want to break the record Lagno girls Katie - the grandmaster. She broke the record in 12 years and 5 months, the youngest girl grandmaster. And I want to break the record of world champion among women.

Zhansai desire may well be fulfilled, only the parents sigh: to succeed, their daughter's need to constantly participate in international tournaments. And this takes money.

Daniyar Ashirov, father and coach Zhansai Abdumalik:

- It turns out that you need to go to the Asian Championship or World Cup, we have to, I do not know in the ministry, I do not think it makes them special or something. They say you Ride, and the money you get after the tournament, as well as begin to explain what possibilities there are none to, say, the daughter of lucky, lucky coach, someone from the parents, at least - one million tenge.

But this story - a happy ending: a talented chess player decided to help the general public, including many well-known players. They identified Zhansae a scholarship in one of the universities of Kazakhstan and agreed to sponsor all of its trips to tournaments. 

Source: Official Website 

Libyan Leader Gaddafi enjoys a game of chess

MOSCOW, June 12, 2011 (AFP) - President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi told him over a game of chess in Tripoli on Sunday he had no plans to stand down or leave his country.

As fighting between Kadhafi's forces and Libyan insurgents raged across western Libya, the Russian eccentric who once claimed he hosted extraterrestrials, also sat down for a game of chess with Kadhafi's eldest son Muhammad and the two played the Sicilian defense, Russia's Interfax news agency said.

"The meeting [with Moamer Kadhafi] lasted around two hours, we played some chess with Kadhafi," Ilyumzhinov, who is on a visit to Tripoli in his capacity as FIDE president, told Interfax.

"Kadhafi stated that he is not going to leave Libya, stressing that it is his motherland and a land where his children and grandchildren died. He also said that he does not understand which post he needs to step down from."

"I am neither premier nor president nor king. I do not hold any post in Libya and therefore I have no position which I should give up," Ilyumzhinov quoted Kadhafi as telling him.

Ilyumzhinov, who also met with foreign and education ministers, said he saw a lot of destruction in Tripoli.

He expressed his condolences to Kadhafi over the death of his son and grandchildren and said he was shown a house hit by five bombs where the leader's family members died.

Ilyumzhinov was the head of Russia's Buddhist region of Kalmykia between 1993 and 2010. He famously claimed that he had met aliens on the balcony of his apartment in Moscow, prompting demands to explain his behaviour.

The West is involved in the bombing campaign against Kadhafi's forces, a conflict Russia has offered to mediate. The Kremlin's special representative to Africa, Mikhail Margelov, visited rebels in Libya's east this week and is now preparing a trip to Tripoli.

Margelov said he would be ready to meet with Kadhafi but had not so far received any such orders from the Kremlin, which has repeatedly called on the Libyan leader to stand down for the sake of peace of the country.