Alisa Melekhina

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Alisa Melekhina at the United States Women's Chess Championship 2012 in St. Louis
Association United StatesUnited States United States
Born June 26, 1991
Simferopol
title International Women's Champion (2008)
FIDE Champion (2011)
Current  Elo rating 2194 (February 2020)
Best Elo rating 2304 (March to May 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alisa Melekhina (born June 26, 1991 in Simferopol , Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea ) is an American chess player .

Life

Her family moved to Brooklyn when Alisa Melekhina was two months old. She lived there until she was five and then grew up in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood of Philadelphia . She learned to play chess from her father at the age of five.

She attended Northeast High School in Philadelphia. She studied philosophy at Drexel University and graduated with a bachelor's degree, after which she studied law at Pennsylvania State University .

Alisa Melekhina produced chess-learning DVDs for OCL (onlinechesslessons.net).

successes

In 2001 Alisa Melekhina won the Pan-American youth championship in the U10 female age group in Guaymallén ( province of Mendoza ), due to the title regulations valid at the time, she was awarded the title of FIDE Women's Champion (WFM) for this success. At the Pan-American U16 championship for women in 2006 in Cuenca , she was second behind Ingrid Aliaga Fernandez . For the US women's national team, she played on the fourth board at the 2009 World Cup in Ningbo and achieved an individual gold medal for her result of four points from six games. In 2015 she took part again with the United States in the women's team championship and achieved four points from eight games as a reserve player.

Since November 2008 she has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). She achieved the standards for this in July 2007 at the World Open in King of Prussia , with over-fulfillment in April 2008 at an invitation tournament in Chicago and, again with over-fulfillment, in July 2008 at the World Open in Philadelphia. Their norm in Chicago was also a norm for obtaining the titles of Women's Grand Master (WGM) and International Master (IM). She has held the title of FIDE Master since 2011.

Web links

Commons : Alisa Melekhina  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography entry on the website of the United States Women's Chess Championship (English)
  2. ↑ Local chess prodigy goes for women's championship . Article by Dan Gross from April 18, 2012 on philly.com (English)
  3. ↑ Chess videos by Alisa Melekhina on onlinechesslessons.net (English)
  4. ↑ The Pan-American U10 Championship women 2001 on Brazil base (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Title regulations from 1998 to 2002 ( Memento from October 16, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
  6. ↑ The Pan-American U16 Championship women 2006 on Brazil base (Portuguese)
  7. ↑ Alisa Melekhina at the 2009 Women's World Team Championship on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ WIM application (English)
  9. ↑ Alisa Melekhina's IM standards at FIDE (English)
personal data
SURNAME Melekhina, Alisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Simferopol