Dina Kagramanov (born 24 August 1986), is an
Azerbaijan
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-born
Canadian
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chess player who holds the
FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 2009). She won
Canadian Women's Chess Championship twice.
Biography
In 2003, Dina Kagramanov won the Canadian Girl's Chess Championship in the U18 age group. In 2005, she won
Toronto
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Women's Chess Championship. In 2009, Dina Kagramanov for the first time won the Canadian Women's Chess Championship. In 2010 Kagramanov participated in
Women's World Chess Championship
The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the world champion in women's chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE.
Unlike with most sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, wher ...
by
knock-out
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking ...
system and in the first round lost to
Nana Dzagnidze.
She played for Canada in the
Women's Chess Olympiads:
* In 2002, at second board in the
35th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Bled
Bled (; german: Veldes,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 146. in older sources also ''Feldes'') is a town on Lake Bled in the Upper C ...
(+6, =3, -3),
* In 2008, at third board in the
38th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
(+5, =1, -3),
* In 2010, at second board in the
39th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk ( rus, Ха́нты-Манси́йск, Khánty-Mansíysk, lit. ''Khanty-Mansi Town''; Khanty language, Khanty: , ''Jomvoćś''; Mansi language, Mansi: , ''Abga'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the admini ...
(+5, =1, -3).
In 2009, Kagramanov was awarded the FIDE
Woman International Master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
(WIM) title.
References
External links
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Dina Kagramanovat Canadian Chess Biographies
1986 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Baku
Canadian female chess players
Chess Woman International Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors
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