Katerina Rohonyan (, born 25 April 1984) is a Ukrainian-American

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player holding the title of

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(WGM). She moved from

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to United States in 2004. She regularly competes in

U.S. Women's Chess Championship Following are the results of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship from 1937 to date. The tournament determines the woman chess champion of the United States. List of U.S. Women's Chess Champions *1937 Adele Rivero *1938 Mona May Karff *1940 Adele ...

. Rohonyan won the Women's

Ukrainian Chess Championship This is a list of all the winners of the Ukrainian Chess Championship, including those held when Ukraine was a Soviet republic and those held after Ukraine became independent. Players' names listed in parentheses indicate that the player won the to ...

in 2000 in her hometown,

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. She competed in the

Women's World Chess Championship 2008 The Women's World Chess Championship 2008 took place from August 28, 2008 to September 18 in Nalchik, Russia. It was won by Alexandra Kosteniuk, who beat Hou Yifan in the final by 2½ to 1½. For the fifth time, the championship took the form of ...

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, Russia, where she defeated

Natalia Zhukova Natalia Oleksandrivna Zhukova ( uk, Наталія Олександрівна Жукова; born 5 June 1979) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and two-time European women's champion. She won several age-group titles as a teenager, at both the E ...

in the first round to progress to the second, losing to

Inna Gaponenko Inna Gaponenko (also known as Inna Yanovska; born 22 June 1976) is a Ukrainian chess player holding the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Career She won the European under-16 girls' championship in 1992 and the w ...

. In 2010, she tied for the first place in the

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, Canada. Rohonyan played for the USA team that won the bronze medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad of 2008 in

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. She contributed to this result by scoring 6/10 points on board four. Rohonyan also played for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the European Girls' Under-18 Team Chess Championships of 2000 and 2002.European Girls' U18 Team Chess Championship: Kateryna Rohonyan
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chess games at 365Chess.com * 1984 births Living people Chess woman grandmasters American female chess players American chess players Ukrainian female chess players Ukrainian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Sportspeople from Mykolaiv American people of Ukrainian descent American people of Armenian descent American sportswomen Ukrainian people of Armenian descent 21st-century American women {{US-chess-bio-stub