Sorokina is a Women International Master (WIM) since 2001. She won the Belarus Girls' Chess Championship in her age group eight times (in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2000). She came second in the
Belarus Women's Chess Championship in 1998. Sorokina represented Belarus in two
Chess Olympiads in Yerevan 1996, and
Elista 1998. She represented Australia in the
36th Chess Olympiad in
Calvià 2004. Her best result was in 1998 when she scored 5.5/9 for Belarus on the reserve board. She has been an
arbiter for the
Chess Olympiads in
Bled 2002, Istanbul 2012,
Tromsø 2014, Baku 2016 and a number of
FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13 events, the as well as several other major
FIDE tournaments. She has also worked as Chief and Deputy Chief Arbiter in some of the most famous events such as
London Chess Classic,
Norway Chess and
Cairns Cup. She was also Chief Arbiter in the
Women's World Chess Championship in 2016, 2018 & 2023 and in the
Candidates Tournament 2022. From 2017 to 2020 she headed the Belarusian Chess Federation. In this short time, much has been done to develop and popularize chess giving a new life to the national chess championships and attracting major international events such as the European Individual Chess Championship and the first ever World Rapid & Blitz Cadet Chess Championships which have evolved to an event with massive participation. At the same time, the
Youth Olympic Games, Belarus team shared the prestigious 3-4th place with the Chinese team. In the fall of 2018, Anastasia Sorokina was elected to the post of
FIDE Vice President, and Belarus won the right to host the
Chess Olympiad in Minsk in 2022. In the most recent years, she is Chair of the FIDE Commission for Women's Chess and has initiated many important FIDE Social Projects "Infinite Chess" (Chess for kids with autism spectrum disorder) and "Chess for Protection: Girls Club" chess for refugees. For both projects, special programs were developed under Sorokina's leadership and she is currently also working in social corporate responsibility field and gender equality. == Personal life ==