12 Facts About Alisa Galliamova

Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.

Alisa Galliamova is twice runner-up at the Women's World Chess Championship, in 1999 and 2006, and three-time Russian women's champion.

Alisa Galliamova was known as "Alisa Galliamova-Ivanchuk" from 1993 to 2001.

Alisa Galliamova played for the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2010 Women's Chess Olympiad and for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the 1992 Women's European Team Chess Championship.

Alisa Galliamova won the 1992 European Team Championship, got two silver medals at the 1990 and 1992 Chess Olympiads, as well as bronze in 1996.

Alisa Galliamova was scheduled to play a match with Xie Jun in August 1998, and the winner of that match was supposed to play a match in November 1998 with Zsuzsa Polgar for the Women's World Chess Championship.

Alisa Galliamova wanted half of the match to be played in Kazan, Russia.

Finally, when Alisa Galliamova failed to show up to play the match, the match was declared forfeited to Xie Jun.

In March 2006, Alisa Galliamova again reached the finals of the FIDE Women's World Championship, competing against Xu Yuhua.

Alisa Galliamova was born to Russian father and Tatar mother.

Alisa Galliamova was married to Ukrainian Grandmaster Vasyl Ivanchuk, one of the top rated players in the world.

Alisa Galliamova founded the Children's Chess School, which holds annual sports camps for the republic's most talented children.