Květa Eretová (née Jeništová; 21 October 1926 – 8 January 2021) was a Czech

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player, who was awarded the title

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(WGM) by

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in 1986. She was ten times Czechoslovak women's chess champion.

Biography

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Eretová was one of the leading Czechoslovakian female chess players. She won the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championships ten times: 1955, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1976 and 1986. Overall, she won 23 medals (including 10 silver and 3 bronzes), a record for all time championships. She was the medalist of many international chess tournaments, including the 2nd place

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(1971), Emmen (1971) and Halle (1971, 1978). Květa Eretová participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament twice: * In 1959, at

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she took 10th place; * In 1964, at

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she took 10th place. In 1979, she participated in Women's Interzonal tournament in

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, where shared 8th-9th places. Eretová played for Czechoslovakia in the

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: * In 1957, on second board in the 1st Chess Olympiad (women) in Emmen (+8, =1, -2) and won the individual silver medal, * In 1966, on first board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+4, =6, -2), * In 1969, on second board in the 4th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+5, =3, -1) and won the team and the individual bronze medals, * In 1972, on second board in the 5th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+2, =5, -1), * In 1974, on first board in the 6th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+4, =4, -2). In 1957, Eretová was awarded the title International Woman Master (WIM) by FIDE, and in 1986 she received that of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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