Eva Moser (26 July 1982 – 31 March 2019) was an Austrian chess player. She was awarded the titles

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(IM), in 2004, and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), in 2003, by

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. Moser won both the absolute and women's Austrian chess championships. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in

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Chess career

Moser started playing chess at the age of 10. She won the Austrian chess championship for girls, in various age groups, eight times. In 1998 Moser won the silver medal at the Under 16 girls' event of the European Youth Chess Championships in Mureck, behind

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, who won on tie-break. In team events, Moser has represented Austria in the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2000, open section (commonly referred to as "men's section") of the

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in 2004, Women's European Team Chess Championship since 2003, and open section of the Mitropa Cup (1999, 2002, 2004). Moser was awarded by

the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2003 (Austria's first one) and

(IM) in 2004. In 2006, she won the

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, becoming the first woman to do so. She won the Austrian women's championship in 2010 and 2011. Tournament victories include the Dresden women's event in 2000, Jena Open in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, and Chess Ladies Vienna in 2012 and 2013. In 2006/07 her Austrian First League team ''Styria Graz'' became Austrian Team Champion. She used to play for the team ''Wolfsberg'' in Austria; and OSG ''Baden-Baden'' in the German Women's Chess Bundesliga, winning at least five times, and dominating for many years. Moser also published a small number of instructional chess DVDs with ChessBase.

Personal life

Moser completed a degree in Business Administration in

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in 2009. She worked for the Austrian chess magazine "Schach-Aktiv". Eva Moser died of leukaemia on 31 March 2019Schulz, André (2019-04-03)
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