Aleksandra Goryachkina

Aleksandra Goryachkina
Alexandra Goryachkina, World Junior Championship 2012 in Athens
Full name	Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina
Country	Russia
Born	(1998-09-28) September 28, 1998 (age 18) Orsk, Russia
Title	Woman Grandmaster (2012)
FIDE rating	2459 (March 2017)
Peak rating	2509 (March 2016)

Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina (Russian: Александра Юрьевна Горячкина; born 28 September 1998 in Orsk) is a Russian chess prodigy holding the title of Woman grandmaster.

She won twice the World Junior Girls Chess Championship, in 2013 and in 2014. She also won the World Under-10 Girls Championship in 2008, the European Under-12 Girls Championship in 2010, both the European and World U14 Girls Championships in 2011 (scoring 9/9 in the latter), both the European and World U18 Girls Championships in 2012.

She was the runner up in the European U12 Girls Championship and bronze medalist in the World U12 Girls Championshiop in 2009.

In 2011, she won the Lyudmila Rudenko Memorial in Saint Petersburg and during that year her rating climbed almost 300 points from 2045 to 2333.

In 2012, she finished equal second (third on tiebreak) in the Russian Junior (Under 20) Girls Championship and won the Women’s Russian Cup knockout competition.

She took part in the Tata Steel C Tournament in Wijk aan Zee in early 2013, scoring 3.5 points out of 13 games (1 win, 5 draws, 7 losses). In April 2013, she came second in the Russian U19 Championship (open section). In June of that year, she placed equal second (third on tiebreak) in the Russian Championship Higher League (women's section). Thanks to this result she qualified for the first time for the Russian Women's Championship Superfinal, in which she scored 4.5/9, placing equal fourth (sixth on tiebreak). In December 2013 she competed in the open section of the World U18 Championship in Al Ain and scored 6.5/11.

In March 2014, she participated for the first time in the European Individual Chess Championship and scored 5/11. In June of the same year, she placed equal third (fifth on tiebreak) in the Women's Higher League with 6/9 and qualified for the Women's Superfinal. In September 2014, she placed equal first (fourth on tiebreak) in the Satka Autumn women's open tournament. In November of that year, she placed third in the Women's Superfinal scoring 5.5/9.