Editing Anna Zatonskih

{{Short description|Ukrainian and American chess player (born 1978)}}
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{{Family name hatnote|Vitaliivna|Zatonskih|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox chess player
| name = Anna Zatonskih
| image = AnnaZatonskih10.jpg
| caption = Zatonskih in 2010
| country = Ukraine (until 2003)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/download/jan03frl.zip|title=FIDE ratings January 2003|website=[[FIDE]]}}</ref><br>United States (since 2003)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/download/apr03frl.zip|title=FIDE ratings April 2003|website=[[FIDE]]}}</ref>
| birth_name = Hanna Vitaliivna Zatonskih
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|7|17}}
| birth_place = [[Mariupol]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]] (now [[Ukraine]])
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| title = [[International Master]] (2004)<br>[[Woman Grandmaster]] (1999)
| worldchampion = 
| womensworldchampion = 
| rating = 
| peakrating = 2537 (May 2011)
| FideID = 14101572
}}

'''Anna Zatonskih''' (born '''Hanna Vitaliivna Zatonskih'''{{efn|{{langx|uk|Ганна Віталіївна Затонських|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Hanna Vitaliivna Zatonskykh}}}}}},  July 17, 1978)<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Zatonskih,%20Anna.html Anna Zatonskih] FIDE rating history, 1994–2001 at Olimpbase.org</ref> is a Ukrainian American [[chess]] player who holds the titles [[International Master]] (IM) and [[Woman Grandmaster]] (WGM). She is a four-time U.S. women's champion, as well as a former Ukrainian women's champion.

==Career==
Born July 17, 1978, in [[Mariupol]], Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), Zatonskih learned chess at age five from her parents, who are both strong players. Her father Vitaly is rated about 2300, while her mother is a candidate master. Anna beat her mother for the first time at age 14.

Zatonskih won many Ukrainian girls' titles in several age categories. In 1999 she was awarded the WGM title by [[FIDE]]. She won the [[Ukrainian Chess Championship|Ukrainian Women's Championship]] in 2001. She represented Ukraine in two [[Women's Chess Olympiad]]s, at [[34th Chess Olympiad|Istanbul 2000]] at [[35th Chess Olympiad|Bled 2002]], and in two [[European Team Chess Championship|Women's European Team Championship]]s, Batumi 1999 (where she won a silver medal on her board) and Leon 2001.

She has played on the U.S. national team in all Women's Olympiads since 2004 and in four [[World Team Chess Championship|Women's World Team Championship]]s. Her team won the team silver medal in the [[36th Chess Olympiad|2004 Olympiad]] and the team bronze in the [[38th Chess Olympiad|2008 Olympiad]]; she also won the gold medal on {{chessgloss|board one}} at the 2008 Olympiad, and the silver medal on board one at the 2017 Women's World Team Championship. In 2023, she played on Board 2 for Team USA in the FIDE Women's Team Championship, helping Team USA reach the semifinals. <ref>{{cite web |last1=US Chess |title=USA Finishes Fourth in FIDE Women's World Team Championship |url=https://new.uschess.org/news/usa-finishes-fourth-fide-womens-world-team-championship |website=US Chess |access-date=4 October 2023 |date=12 September 2023}}</ref>

Zatonskih won the [[U.S. Women's Chess Championship|United States Women's Chess Championship]] in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011.<ref>[http://www.uschess.org/content/view/151/203 "IM Anna Zatonskih (Top Player Bio)"], United States Chess Federation</ref> In 2008, she defeated the defending U.S. women's champion, [[Irina Krush]], in a playoff held with the "{{chessgloss|Armageddon game|Armageddon}}" format.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-06-09|title=Armageddon at the US Women's Championship|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/armageddon-at-the-us-women-s-championship|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313230818/http://en.chessbase.com:80/post/armageddon-at-the-us-women-s-championship |archive-date=2014-03-13 |access-date=2020-12-18|website=Chess News|publisher=ChessBase}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Zatonskih is married to [[Daniel Fridman]], also a chess player. They have a daughter, Sofia, and a son, Joshua.<ref>Tom Braunlich (2008-06-13) [http://main.uschess.org/content/view/8500/463/ "Interview with Anna Zatonskih"]. United States Chess Federation.</ref>

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==References==
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==External links==
*{{365Chess.com player|Anna_Zatonskih}}
*{{Chessgames player|50074}}
*{{OlimpBase women's player|9bnnb97f}}

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| before = [[Rusudan Goletiani]]
| title = [[U.S. Women's Chess Championship|U.S. Women's Chess Champion]]
| years = 2006
| after = [[Irina Krush]]
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| before = [[Irina Krush]]
| title = [[U.S. Women's Chess Championship|U.S. Women's Chess Champion]]
| years = 2008, 2009
| after = [[Irina Krush]]
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| before = [[Irina Krush]]
| title = [[U.S. Women's Chess Championship|U.S. Women's Chess Champion]]
| years = 2011
| after = [[Irina Krush]]
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