Eva Repková (born 16 January 1975 in Stará Ľubovňa) is a Slovak chess player holding the FIDE titles of

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(IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was Czechoslovak Women's Champion in 1991 and Slovak Women's Champion in 2003, 2010 and 2013.

Chess career

Repková learned to play chess at the age of five, while watching her parents play chess on Sundays. She became Slovak Women's Champion in 1987 at the age of 12, and won the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championship in

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in 1991. Repková won silver medals in the World Girl's Under-14 Chess Championship in Timișoara 1988, and the World Girl's Under-18 Chess Championships in Guarapuava 1991 and

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1993.Big Database 2013, ChessBase GmbH In 1995 she came second, on tie break, behind Nino Khurtsidze in the World Girl's Under-20 Chess Championship in

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. Repková represented Czechoslovakia in the

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in 1992, and has represented Slovakia on board 1 of the Women's team in eight Chess Olympiads between 1994 and 2016. Her best result was in her Olympiad debut in Manila 1992, where she scored 9½/13 and finished fourth on board 3. She represented Czechoslovakia in 1992 and Slovakia in 2001 in the European Women's Team Chess Championship, and won the individual silver medal in León 2001. After her first marriage to Lebanese International Master Fadi Eid, Repková won the Arab Women's Chess Championship in Agadir 1998 and Beirut 2000. She came second in the Asian Women's Chess Championship twice, behind

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in Tehran 1997, and behind

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in the Genting Highlands 1998. She won the Slovak Women's Chess Championship in Tatranské Zruby 2003, in

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2010, and in Banská Štiavnica 2013. She won various international tournaments, including the Mediterranean Flower tournament in

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2003 and 2013, the Mediterranean Golden Island (Women) in

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2003 and Malinska 2005, and the Summer-A IM in

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2009. Repková represented Slovakia in the open chess Mitropa Cup in 2005 and 2006, winning the team bronze in

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2005. She represented Slovakia in the women's chess Mitropa Cup in

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2013, winning both the individual and team gold medals. Repková was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1995, and

(IM) in 2007.

Personal life

Repková married Lebanese IM Fadi Eid, and represented Lebanon from 1997 until 2001. In October 1998, their son

Christopher Repka Christopher Repka (born 6 October 1998) is a Slovak chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Slovak Chess Champion. Chess career Born on 6 October 1998, Repka earned his international master (IM) title in 2016 and his grandmaster (GM) title in 2 ...

was born; he won the Slovak Junior Chess Championship in his age group several times and became a GM in 2018.FIDE Chess Profile: Repka, Christopher
/ref> In 2002, she married FIDE Master Eric Peterson, a co-founder of the Internet Chess Club. Together with him and her brother, Repková leads an internationally operated computer company ''Ferimex IT''. Repková divorced Peterson in 2013. Repková speaks Slovak, English, Russian, and German.

References

External links

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Eva Repkova
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Repkova, Eva 1975 births Living people Chess International Masters Chess Woman Grandmasters Slovak female chess players Slovak chess players People from Stará Ľubovňa Sportspeople from the Prešov Region Czechoslovak female chess players Czechoslovak chess players Lebanese chess players Chess Olympiad competitors