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Kateryna Lagno (sometimes seen as Lahno), who was the #2 ranked female chess player in the Ukraine, ahead of the #3 ranked Mariya Muzychuk, and behind Miriya's older sister, the top ranked Anna Muzychuk, has jumped ship ):
Ukrainian Grandmaster Kateryna Lagno has left the Ukrainian team in favor of the Russian team. GM Lagno, 24, won two European chess championships and is the 2014 Women's World Champion in fast chess. She is currently ranked ... as the seventh-best female chess player in the world.
Having grown up in chess-friendly Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, she could very well have friends who were bombed by the junta in Kiev. Given the brutality of that regime, with their war crimes and ethnic cleansing of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, I can't say as I'm surprised that she would choose to move. Mind you, her public remarks were, wisely, diplomatically expressed.
Kateryna follows Super-GM Sergey Karjakin who also recently made the jump to the Russian team. For all we know, more may follow and the trickle will become a flood ... just like the flood of tens of thousands (up to 110,000 so far and may reach as high as 490,000!) of Ukrainian refugees into Russia.
The cost for the Russian Federation is 20,000-euros ($27,215). Maybe you could call it neo-liberal privatization at work. The Ukrainian Chess Federation gets cash, which they may need badly under the cruel IMF-sponsored austerity regime, and Russia gets a brilliantly talented player in Kateryna.
GM.Katerina Lahno/Lagno has been married to a French GM/Chess commentator and journalist and is living in France.
Not anymore. Karpov noted the following ...
Originally posted by Anatoly Karpov
"From now on she will represent the Russian national team at the international competitions. She's a strong player, a grandmaster. She's of course from Ukraine, she was born there, but she didn't live there last years. She got married and lived in France but then unfortunately she got divorced. After that she started looking for opportunities and places where she could live and support herself by the help of her profession. Russia offered her such possibilities. I think Lagno strengthens our team, we have all chances to win the Olympiad."
Kateryna Lagno vaults the Russian women into the lead with a few rounds to go
Thanks to her win over Women's World Champion Hou Yifan, Lagno's Russian team has vaulted into the lead in the Women's section with a few rounds to go, thumping the powerful and undefeated Chinese team 3-1. The win puts Lagno's team in sole possession of first place.
Hou Yifan went down the exchange in a Nimzo-Indian line, then two exchanges, and then finally fell under a nice major piece attack with the Queen on c3 and Rd8-h8 driving the King out into the open, forcing Hou to give up her Queen and other material.
Hou Yifan wasn't the only World Champion to lose today. Magnus Carlsen also lost to Germany's Arkadij Naiditsch in a minor-piece ending.
Sidebar of note:
The website Chess24 managed to find an old photo of Lagno to identify her (not from the FIDE listing) in which she appears with a Ukrainian flag in the background. What an interesting "mistake".
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Saturday, 9th August, 2014, 02:28 PM.
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
Re: Kateryna Lagno vaults the Russian women into the lead with a few rounds to go
Nice picture - thanks for posting :-)
On the other hand watching Bator playing live is a nightmare - I have never seen another strong player missing so many won positions as Bator does. Even harder to follow in a team event.
Kateryna Lagno and the Russian women play vs. Ukraine today
The leading Russian women's team is paired against the Ukrainian team in the penultimate (next-to-the-last) round. It will be interesting to see how Kateryna Lagno does in this round. So far, she's smiling!
Kateryna Lagno
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
Re: Kateryna Lagno and the Russian women play vs. Ukraine today
Not just Kathy Lagno switched federations (the publicity made around her transfer brought her into spotlight), but also Anna Muzichuk returned to play for her native country, as she represented Slovenia recently.
And the Russian women have repeated as champions for the third time in a row. Maybe they can advise the "open" team?
Lagno didn't finish well, with two losses in the final two rounds, but her teammates made up the difference in style. Her role in the match against the Chinese team was critical in any case. China 2nd! and Ukraine 3rd. It looks like the Canadian women were 41st.
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Monday, 18th August, 2014, 01:56 PM.
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
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