Batchimeg Tuvshintugs

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Batchimeg Tuvshintugs (b. 1986 in Mongolia) is a Woman International Master of chess. She now (2006) lives in Oakland, California.

[edit] 2006 U.S. Championship

Batchimeg scored several upsets in the 2006 U.S. Chess Championship held March 2-11 in San Diego, California, defeating three grandmasters and drawing another grandmaster in the first five rounds of the event. The tournament bulletin after round 5 called her result so far a "sensation" ^[1]; however, she lost her remaining four games, ultimately tying for 27th-30th place out of 32 in her tournament group ^[2].

Batchimeg started the tournament rated 2208 by FIDE. In the first round, she defeated Grandmaster Alexander Fishbein (rated 2519) who ultimately finished fourth in group B (the tournament was a double Swiss). She then lost to Grandmaster Yury Shulman (2581) in round two. In round three, she defeated Grandmaster Boris Kreiman (2478); the tournament bulletin reported "Kreiman might not have been taking her seriously as he banged out his moves in record time. At the end of the game Kreiman had used less than 15 minutes on his clock compared to over 90 for 'Chimi,' as her friends call her. Time well spent!" ^[3]. In round 4, she drew well-known GM Boris Gulko (2585) and and in round 5, she defeated Grandmaster Julio Becerra (2556). She lost all her remaining games of the tournament, so her final score was 3.5 points out of 9, placing 27th (out of 32) in Group B on tiebreaks but scoring a norm for the Woman Grandmaster title ^[4] due to the strong opposition she faced.