Miss ChessOK Play Zone-2008
08 July 2008

The competition « Miss ChessOK Play Zone-2008 », which carried out on our site has come to the end. 22 girls have taken part in it, decided to prove, that wit and beauty do not contradict each other at all, and can harmoniously be combined.
The election of the winner were carried out by open voting. Certainly, all had their own sympathies, in fact, there can not be formal criteria of a choice in competition of that kind. It has led to rough discussions, and it is enough to tell, that in a theme of discussion of competition were fixed more than 10000 viewings! It is pleasant to note, that at all participants have found admirers, who were fascinated with their individuality and voted for them.
Natalia Utkina has occupied the first place, she becomes
Miss ChessOK Play Zone-2008 and receives main prize
Chess Assistant 9.
The winner is 19 years old girl, she was born on November, 11 in 1988 year, she lives in
Novosibirsk, more over she is the student of faculty of automatics and computer facilities of Novosibirsk state technical university. Natalia’s best chess achievements are two victories in championship of Siberia among girls till 18 years, current rating FIDE 2024.
Marina Lupik has occupied the second place.
Marina was born on 11.11.1987 (probably 11.11 – the magic number, two most attractive participants were born this day) in Armavir, nowadays lives in Saint Petersburg. She is the student of faculty of applied mathematics of the St.-Petersburg university. Except for a chess Marina is fond of table tennis, basketball, likes to dance. The best chess results are a victory in championship of
Saint Petersburg among girls till 18 years, 3 place in the championship of
Russia till 18 years and 6 place in the championship of Europe among girls till 18 years, rating FIDE 2120.
Anastacia Maksimova from Kazan has borrowed the
third place
The best foreign participant Sandra Ganguin from Switzerland will get the special prize, which is the programme “
Opening instructor”

You can look through photos of another participants
here.