Yulia Makarenkova

Yulia Weinstein was introduced to draughts when she was four years old. When she was in the third grade, in late 1982, she started training seriously under the guidance of Mikhail Litvinenko. In 1984, Weinstein won her first meaningful title when she became the champion of Kiev among U-18 girls. During the tournament, she defeated some of the girls who were two levels higher than her in the Soviet sporting rankings.

In 1988, Makarenkova became the youngest Soviet champion in Russian checkers, winning the national championships at the age of 15. In 1989, she became the champion of the Ukrainian SSR, and in 1990 won the Soviet championship for the second time.[1]

Starting from 1993, Makarenkova regularly took part in the World championships in Russian checkers, organized both by the leading international organization, FMJD, and the alternative International Association of Russian Checkers (Russian: Международная ассоциация русских шашек, МАРШ). She won the FMJD World championships three times, in 1994, 1999 and 2009, and was a medalist multiple times. In 2007 at the first World Women Championships in Brazilian draughts, Makarenkova won a bronze medal. In addition, she is two-time European champion in Russian checkers (in 2002 and 2007), also winning medals in 2004 and 2006. In addition, she won the world championship (Russian checkers) in rapid draughts and blitz in 2003.[2]

During the period of national independence, starting 1992, Yulia Makarenkova (Weinstein) won the Ukrainian national championships in Russian checkers seven times (1992, 1993, 1997—1999, 2007 and 2008) and became six-time silver medalist and two-times bronze medalist.[1]

Year	Competition	Place	Tournament / match	Result	Place
1993	WC	Kerch	Tournament	5/8	2
1993	WC (MARSH)	Oryol	Tournament		3
1994	WC	Alushta	Tournament	21/32	1
1994	WC (MARSH)	Yakutsk	Tournament	12.5/17	2
1996	WC	Alushta	Tournament		3
1999	WC	Simferopol	Tournament	22/28	1
2001	WC	Alushta	Tournament	19/26	2
2003	WC	Saint Petersburg	Tournament	19/28	21
2002	EC	Dnepropetrovsk	Tournament		1
2004	EC	Kaluga	Tournament		3
2006	EC	Saarbrücken	Tournament (Swiss+PO)	+3=5-12	2
2007	WC (Brazilian)	Nidzica	Tournament	+5=5-1	33
2007	EC	Lviv	Tournament	+8=3-0	1
2007	WC (MARSH)	Pitsunda	Tournament	9/13	2
2008	WMSG	Beijing	Tournament (Swiss+PO)	+2=7-1	44
2008	EC	Kargopol	Турнир (Swiss+PO)	+3=3-35	4
2009	WC	Rubizhne	Tournament (Swiss+RR)	+6=8-06	1
2010	EC	Sunny Beach	Tournament (Swiss)	+2=6-1	7

¹ Lost to Antonina Langina 2-4 in a 1st place barrage
² +3=4-0 in Swiss tournament, drew in semifinal against Viktoriya Motrichko, lost in the final to Elena Bushueva
³ By the results of an additional round robin tournament took part in a 3rd place barrage and defeated Stepanida Kirillina
⁴ +2=5-0 in Swiss tournament, lost in semifinal to Elena Miskova, in a 3rd place barrage drew against Yuliya Romanskaya and lost the bronze medal based on ranking[4]
⁵ +3=3-1 in Swiss tournament, lost in semifinal to Yulia Kuzina and in the 3rd place barrage to Daria Fedorovich
⁶ +2=5-0 in Swiss tournament, +4-3=0 in the final round robin

Although small board draughts remain the primary specialization field for Makarenkova, she also participates in national and international competitions in International draughts. She won the national championships in International draughts twice (in 1999[1] and 2009[5]) and was a medalist several times.

The best result by Makarenkova in international competitions was sharing the 4th place at the World championship in Bamako (Mali) after winning 4 games, drawing 7 and losing 2. She also took part in 1997 and 1999 World championships and in 2008 and 2010 European championships with less success. She was a member in the Ukrainian national team in the 2010 European team championships.[6]