Elizaveta Evgenievna Solozhenkina (russian: Елизавета Евгеньевна Соложенкина; born 10 September 2003) is a Russian chess player. She received the
FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2021.
Biography
Elizaveta Solozhenkina is the daughter of
GM Evgeniy Solozhenkin
Evgeniy Solozhenkin (born July 31, 1966 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster.
Tournament results
* 1986 : wins, at age 20, the 59th Leningrad City Chess Championship, Leningrad championship
* 1993 : wins the c ...
. She is a
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
chess school schoolgirl. She started playing chess from the age of five. In 2015, Elizaveta Solozhenkina won the Russian Youth Chess Championship in the U13 girls age group.
Solozhenkina repeatedly represented Russia at the
European Youth Chess Championships and
World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won five medals: gold (in 2015, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U12 girls age group), three silver (in 2012 and 2013, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U10 girls age group, and in 2014, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U12 girls age group) and bronze (in 2017, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U14 girls age group).
In 2016, she 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
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2003 births
Living people
Russian female chess players
Russian chess players
Chess Woman Grandmasters
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