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U.S. Women's Chess Championship
Following are the results of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship from 1937 to date. The tournament determines the woman chess champion of the United States. List of U.S. Women's Chess Champions *1937 Adele Rivero *1938 Mona May Karff *1940 Adele Rivero (2) *1941 Mona May Karff (2) *1942 Mona May Karff (3) *1944 Gisela Kahn Gresser *1946 Mona May Karff (4) *1948 Gisela Kahn Gresser (2) – Mona May Karff (5) *1951 Mary Bain *1953 Mona May Karff (6) *1955 Gisela Kahn Gresser (3) – Nancy Roos *1957 Gisela Kahn Gresser (4) – Sonja Graf *1959 Lisa Lane *1962 Gisela Kahn Gresser (5) *1964 Sonja Graf (2) *1965 Gisela Kahn Gresser (6) *1966 Gisela Kahn Gresser (7) – Lisa Lane (2) *1967 Gisela Kahn Gresser (8) *1969 Gisela Kahn Gresser (9) *1972 Eva Aronson – Marilyn Braun *1974 Mona May Karff (7) *1975 Diane Savereide *1976 Diane Savereide (2) *1978 Diane Savereide (3) – Rachel Crotto *1979 Rachel Crotto (2) *1981 Diane Savereide (4) *1984 Diane Savereide (5) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Levitina
Irina Solomonovna Levitina (born June 8, 1954) is a Russian-American chess and bridge player. In chess, she has been a World Championship Candidate in 1984 and gained the title Woman Grandmaster. In contract bridge she has won five world championship events, four women and two mixed, including play on two world-champion USA women teams. Chess career In 1973, she tied for 2nd–5th in Menorca (interzonal). In 1974, she beat Valentina Kozlovskaya 6,5 : 5,5 in Kislovodsk (semifinal match). In 1975, she lost to Nana Alexandria 8 : 9 in a final match in Moscow. In 1977, she lost to Alla Kushnir 3 : 6 in a quarterfinal match in Dortmund. In 1982, she took 2nd in Tbilisi (interzonal). In 1983, she beat Nona Gaprindashvili 6 : 4 in Lvov (quarterfinal), and Alexandria 7,5 : 6,5 in Dubna (semifinal). In 1984, she beat Lidia Semenova 7 : 5 in Sochi (final) and became World Women's Championship Challenger. Levitina lost to Maia Chiburdanidze 5½ : 8½ in a title match at Volgograd 1984. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carissa Yip
Carissa Shiwen Yip (born September 10, 2003) is an American chess player and a former U.S. Women's Chess Champion. In September 2019, she was the top rated female player in the United States and the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster, which she did at age ten. In October 2019, she became the youngest American woman in history to qualify for the title of International Master. Early life and chess career Carissa Shiwen Yip was born on September 10, 2003, in Boston. Her father Percy Yip (; Pinyin: Yè Péizhào) was from Hong Kong, and her mother Irene Yip (née Cheng, ; Pinyin: Chéng Huálín) was from mainland China. Taught chess moves at age six by her father, within six months she was able to beat him. Soon, she became the best eight-year-old girl chess player in the country. In 2013, at the age of ten, she became the youngest female player to qualify for the USCF title of Expert (rating >2000) in history, and in 2015, at eleven years old, she became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Yu (chess Player)
Jennifer Yu (born February 1, 2002) is an American chess player. She was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018. Yu is a 2-time U.S. Women's Chess Championship, U.S. women's champion, winning in 2019 and 2022. Early life Born in Ithaca, New York, both her parents are of Chinese origin. Yu started playing chess in first grade, attending an after-school chess class. After the school finished its chess sessions, Yu wanted to continue her interest and asked her parents to find a coach. Chess career Yu started playing in chess tournaments at the age of 7, in 2009. By the end of 2013, her rating had risen to 2100. In 2014, Yu competed at the World Youth Chess Championships in Durban, South Africa in the Girls U12 section and took the gold medal. She was the first female player to do so for the United States in 27 years. Yu won the Virginia State Closed Championship in 2015, becoming the youngest player and first female to do so. She also won the National Girls Tournam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabina-Francesca Foisor
Sabina-Francesca Foişor (born August 30, 1989) is a Romanian American chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2008 and 2017. Foisor won the US women's championship in 2017. Chess career Foisor won four medals at the European Youth Chess Championships in various age categories: one gold (girls U8 in 1996), one silver (girls U16 in 2004) and two bronze (girls U14 in 2003 and girls U18 in 2007). She represented Romania in the European Girls U18 Team Chess Championship in 2004 and 2007, winning three medals: two gold (2004 individual medal, 2007 team medal) and one bronze (2007 individual medal). Foisor was awarded the titles Woman International Master (WIM) in 2005 and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2007. She achieved the norms required for the WGM title at the Acropolis women's tournament in Athens in 2006 and European Individual Women's Chess Championship in Dresden in 2007. Her result at 2007 European Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazí Paikidze
Nazí Paikidze, sometimes also referred to as Nazí Paikidze-Barnes ( ka, ნაზი პაიკიძე, ''Nazí Ṗaiḳiʒe'', ; russian: Нази Нодаровна Паикидзе-Барнс, , born 27 October 1993), is a Russian-born Georgian–American chess player. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), which FIDE awarded her in 2012 and 2010 respectively. Paikidze was twice world girls' champion and four-time European girls' champion in her age category, and is a twice U.S. women's champion.Doyle, Jim. "Chess Gym Eat Sleep Repeat; Getting to know the new U.S. Women's Champion IM Nazi Paikidze". ''Chess Life''. August 2016. page 20. Early life Paikidze was born in Irkutsk, Russia. Her father was a mechanical engineer, and her mother a biochemist. Her father taught her to play chess when she was four years old. That same year, her parents moved to Tbilisi, Georgia, where she grew up with dual citizenship Georgian and Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Zatonskih
Anna Zatonskih ( uk, Ганна Затонських; July 17, 1978) is a Ukrainian American chess player who holds the titles International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a four-time U.S. women's champion, as well as a former Ukrainian women's champion. Career Born July 17, 1978, in Mariupol, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), Zatonskih learned chess at age five from her parents, who are both strong players. Her father Vitaly is rated about 2300, while her mother is a candidate master. Anna beat her mother for the first time at age 14. Zatonskih won many Ukrainian girls' titles in several age categories. In 1999 she was awarded the WGM title by FIDE. She won the Ukrainian Women's Championship in 2001. She represented Ukraine in two Women's Chess Olympiads, at Istanbul 2000 at Bled 2002, and in two Women's European Team Championships, Batumi 1999 (where she won a silver medal on her board) and Leon 2001. She has played on the U.S. national team in al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rusudan Goletiani
Rusudan Goletiani ( ka, რუსუდან გოლეთიანი; born September 8, 1980) is a Georgian-American chess player with the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She was three-time world girls' champion in her age category, the 2003 American continental women's champion and the 2005 U.S. women's championship. Chess career Goletiani won the Soviet junior championship for girls under 12 in 1990, when she was nine years old. In 1990, she was the Soviet representative in the World Youth Chess tournament for Peace in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, US. In 1994, she won the world championship for girls under 14 in Hungary. In 1995, she won the world championship for girls under 16 in Guarapuava, Brazil. In 1997, she won the world championship for girls under 18 in Yerevan, Armenia. Goletiani qualified to the Women's World Chess Championship, scheduled to begin on November 25, 2000 in New Delhi, India, by tying for first with Grandmaster Nino Khurt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Hahn (chess)
Anna Hahn ( lv, Anna Hāna, born June 21, 1976) is an American chess player with the title of Woman International Master (WIM). In her native Latvia, she took the women's championship of 1992 and then moved to the U.S., where in 1994 she won the New York City High School Championship, and helped lead Edward R. Murrow to three consecutive National High School championships (1992–1994). Hahn represented Latvia in the 30th Chess Olympiad in Manila 1992 and represented United States in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul 2000. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2000, where she reached round 2. Hahn won the 2003 U.S. Women's Chess Championship in Seattle after beating Irina Krush and Jennifer Shahade in a three-way playoff for the title. In the aftermath, there was some controversy when Hahn was not subsequently selected for the Olympiad training squad.Crowther, Mark (2004-09-13)"TWIC 514: US Championship Wildcards" The Week in Chess. This victory qualified her fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Shahade
Jennifer Shahade (born December 31, 1980) is an American chess player, poker player, commentator and writer. She is a two-time United States Women's Champion and has the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. Shahade is the author of the books ''Chess Bitch'', ''Play Like a Girl'', and most recently, ''Chess Queens'', and co-author of ''Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess''. She is the Women's Program Director at US Chess, MindSports Ambassador for PokerStars and a board member of the World Chess Hall of Fame in Saint Louis. Early life Shahade was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of FIDE Master Mike Shahade and Drexel University chemistry professor and author Sally Solomon. Her father is Christian Lebanese and her mother is Jewish. Her older brother, Greg Shahade, is an International Master. Career In 1998, she became the first female winner of the U.S. Junior Open. In 2002, she won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in Seattle, Washington. At the next U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla Baginskaite
Camilla Baginskaite ( lt, Kamilė Baginskaitė; born 24 April 1967) is a Lithuanian and American chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 2002. Baginskate was born in Vilnius. Her mother is the painter Gintautėlė Laimutė Baginskienė and her father is the architect and professor Tadas Baginskas, from whom she learned chess at eight years old, visiting a chess school when she was ten. At the age of fifteen, in 1982, Baginskate became second at women's chess championship of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, behind Esther Epstein. In 1986, she was third after Ildikó Mádl and Svetlana Prudnikova at the World Junior Girls Championship in Vilnius, her home city. She then went on to win the event the following year in Baguio. For this achievement she received the title Woman International Master (WIM). The championship in 1987 was only her second international tournament and her first outside the Soviet Union. She won the Lithuanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Groberman
Elina Groberman (born 16 February 1983) is a Moldova-born American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 2000). She is a co-winner of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship (2000). Biography In 1995, she moved to the United States with her family. Groberman won the New York State Women's Chess Championships three years in a row (1996-1998). In 1998, she won the Pan American Youth Girl's Chess Championship in the U18 age group. Three times she participated in the World Junior Chess Championship (1997-1999). In 2000, Groberman shared first place with Camilla Baginskaite in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship. In 2001, Elina Groberman participated in Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Nana Ioseliani. In 2000, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title. Later, Groberman rarely participated in chess tournaments. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
