Anastasia Sorokina ( be, Анастасія Сарокіна; born 26 January 1980 in
Minsk
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,
Soviet Union
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) is a Belarusian
chess
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player. She received the
FIDE title
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of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2001 and is an
International Arbiter {{No footnotes, date=April 2022
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International Arbiter
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(2002) and
FIDE Trainer
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(2005).
[Anastasia Sorokina]
FIDE Player Profil
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Chess career
Sorokina 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
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in two Chess Olympiad
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s in Yerevan
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1996, and Elista
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1998. She represented Australia in the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvià
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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 Olympiad
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s in Bled
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2002, Istanbul
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2012, a number of FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13
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events, as well as several other major FIDE tournaments.Thankful letter by Anastasia Sorokina
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In 2017 she headed the Belarusian Chess Federation. In this short time, much has been done to develop and popularize chess. Championships of Belarus have a new life. At the Youth Olympic Games
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, 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
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won the right to host the Chess Olympiad
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in Minsk
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in 2022.
Personal life
Sorokina moved to Australia in 2003, and worked as a chess coach in the Queensland School of Chess, and then Chess Kids in Melbourne
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for a year. She then opened her own chess coaching business "Chess Academy" for several years. She currently lives in Belarus with her family. Her uncle was GM Viktor Kupreichik
Viktor Davidovich Kupreichik (russian: Ви́ктор Давыдо́вич Купре́йчик, be, Віктар Давыдавіч Купрэйчык, ''Viktar Davydavič Kuprejčyk''; 3 July 1949 – 22 May 2017) was a Belarusian chess grandm ...
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1980 births
Living people
Australian female chess players
Belarusian female chess players
Chess Woman International Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Belarusian emigrants to Australia
Chess players from Minsk
Chess arbiters