Kerstin Kunze (born 23 August 1971) is a German

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

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 ...

(2003) who won East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1989).

Chess career

At the age of fifteen, Kerstin Kunze took part in a East Germany Women's Chess Championship for the first time. It was February 1987 at the East Germany Women's Chess Championship in

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when Iris Bröder won. Kerstin Kunze scored 50 percent at an international women's tournament in October 1987 in

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, which Svetlana Prudnikova won. She took part in the East Germany Women's Chess Championship in

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in 1988 when Antje Riedel won. In February 1989 she became East German Women's Chess Champion in

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. Other her tournaments followed: * in 1989

European Youth Chess Championship The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was als ...

in U18 girls group, which

Svetlana Matveeva Svetlana Vladislavovna Matveeva (russian: Светлана Владиславовна Матвеева; born 4 July 1969) is a Russian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. In 1984, she tied for first w ...

won; * in 1989 International Women's Chess tournament in

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; * in 1990 East Germany Women's Chess Championship in

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, which Gundula Nehse won; * in 1990 International Women's Chess tournament in Dresden, which Zoya Lelchuk won; * in 1990

World Junior Chess Championship The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The idea was the brainchild of William Ritso ...

in U20 Girls group in

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, which

Ketino Kachiani Ketino Kachiani or Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska (born 11 September 1971 in Mestia, Georgia) is a Georgian chess player with the titles of Woman Grandmaster (1990) and International Master (1997). She is ranked 6th female German player. She won t ...

won; * in 1991 Women's World Chess Championship Zonal Tournament in

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, which Tatjana Lematschko won; * in 1992 International Women's Chess tournament in Dresden, won by Margarita Voyska; * in 1993 she took part in the 11th ''Berlin Summer'' chess festival when

Karen Movsziszian Karen Movsziszian ( hy, Կարեն Մովսիսյան, born January 6, 1963) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster (1994). He played for Germany from 1993 to 1997 and lives in Spain. He won the Armenian Chess Championship in 1981, the European Senior ...

won.

Team Championships

In the Chess Women's Bundesliga she played in the seasons 1991/92 for ''TSV Schott Mainz'', 1992/93 for the ''USV Potsdam'', 1994/95 and 1995/96 for the ''Dresdner SC'', 1996/97 and 1999/2000 for the ''SV Chemie Guben'', 2000/01 for the ''SC Leipzig-Gohlis'', as well as 2007/08, 2009/10 and 2010/11 for ''SAV Torgelow''. She won the Chess Women's Bundesliga with Dresdner SC in the 1994/95 season and the Chess Women's Bundesliga 2012 in blitz chess with ''USV Potsdam''.

Other

In 2003 she received the title

(WIM) from the

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in 2003. She achieved the three norms for this in 1989 in Zittau at the East Germany Women's Chess Championship, in 1989 in Dresden at an International Women's Chess tournament and in the Chess Women's Bundesliga (1999/2000). Īn July 1989 she reached her highest

Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved ch ...

- 2215.FIDE rating history :: Kunze, Kerstin
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References

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from ''TeleSchach''
The 1st team of ''SAV Torgelow'' in the 2007/08 season
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