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Batchimeg Tuvshintugs (b. 1986 in Mongolia) is a Woman International Master of chess. She now lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

She caused a tremendous sensation in the 2006 U.S. Chess Championship held March 2-11 in San Diego, California, by defeating three top rated grandmasters and drawing anouther grandmaster in the first five rounds. Her opponents had an average Elo Rating of 2612, so her performance rating based upon her score of 3.5 - 1.5 for those five games was 2772, which is perhaps the world's record performance for a woman anywhere in a chess tournament.

Batchimeg Tuvshintugs started the tournament rated 2271. In the first round, she defeated Grandmaster Alexander Fishbein (rated 2593) who ultimately finished fourth. Batchimeg Tuvshintugs then lost to Grandmaster Yury Shulman (2623) who won the trournament, defeated Grandmaster Boris Kreiman (2535), drew Grandmaster Boris Gulko (2678) and then defeated Grandmaster Julio Becerra (2629).

External links

• Batchimeg Tuvshintugs rating card at FIDE
• The chess games of Batchimeg Tuvshintugs

• 1986 births
• Living people
• American chess players
• Mongolian chess players
• Mongolian sportspeople
• Mongolian people
• Chess players