Esther Danilovna EpsteinNNCF Biography
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chess player and systems manager, who has won the U.S. Women's Chess Champion in 1991 and 1997. She holds a

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title. Still in the USSR, Epstein was the USSR Women's Vice-Champion in 1976. She has played for the U.S. Women's Olympiad team four times. She is married to chess grandmaster Alexander Ivanov.

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Interview With Esther Epstein
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