Daniela Nuțu-Gajić

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Daniela Nutu-Terescenko 1982 Luzern.jpg
Daniela Nuțu in 1982 at the Chess Olympiad in Lucerne
Association RomaniaRomania Romania (until 1997) Australia (from 1997)
AustraliaAustralia 
Born June 8, 1957
Timișoara , Romania
title International Women's Champion (1978)
Women's Grandmaster (1986)
Current  Elo rating 2350 (January 2018)
Best Elo rating 2355 (January 1992)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Daniela Nuțu-Gajić (born June 8, 1957 as Daniela Silvia Nuțu in Timișoara ) is a Romanian - Australian chess player and chess trainer. The Australian and three-time Romanian national champion represented Romania at seven chess Olympiads . In 1986 she was awarded the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) by FIDE .

Chess career

Daniela Nuțu and Gertrude Baumstark , 1980 at the Chess Olympiad in Valletta

Nuțu-Gajić won the Romanian women's championship for the first time in 1978. She repeated this success in 1979 and 1980. In 1983 she was second, in 1984 and 1985 she came third in the national championship. Between 1978 and 1994 she represented her home country Romania at a total of seven Chess Olympiads .

At the 24th Chess Olympiad in Valletta 1980 she got 7.5 points from 10 games, and thus won the gold medal on board 3. At the 25th Chess Olympiad in 1982 in Lucerne she even got 11 points from 12 games, winning the individual gold medal on board 3 won the silver medal with her team. She also contributed to Romania's bronze medals at the 1984 Thessaloniki and 1986 Dubai Chess Olympiads . At the Chess Olympiad in Manila in 1992 she won against the former world chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili .

Nuțu-Gajić also represented Romania in 1979, 1985 and 1992 at three Balkan women's chess championships. She and her team won the gold medal in 1985 and the silver medal in 1979 and 1992. In addition, she achieved the second best result on her board in 1985 and 1992.

From the late 1970s to around the mid-1990s, she took part in many international chess tournaments and achieved (partly shared) first places in the tournaments of Plovdiv 1979, Bad Kissingen 1981, Băile Herculane 1982 and 1986 and Athens 1983, among others .

She made a number of attempts to win the Women's World Chess Championship , took part in several zone tournaments , and qualified for two interzonal tournaments . At the 1985/86 women's interzonal tournament in Havana , she finished third with Pia Cramling and Nana Iosseliani with 8.5 points from 13 games , but failed in the playoffs that Cramling won, making it into the candidates' tournament . She scored 7/13 points at the interzonal tournament in Subotica in 1991. In 1991 she finished second behind Ildikó Mádl , in the zonal tournament in Hajdúszoboszló , shared third place in Timișoara in 1993 and took part in the 1995 Nadole tournament.

With a score of 10.5 points from 15 games Nuțu-Gajić won the 42nd Yugoslav Women's Championship in 1989.

Nuțu-Gajić won the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) in 1978 and the Women's Grand Master's title (WGM) in 1986. In 2007 she obtained the title of FIDE trainer.

After emigrating to Australia, she had a very strong influence on Australian women's chess. In 1995 she won both the Australian Women's Championship and the South Australian Open Chess Championship, and in 1995 she won the Women's Championship in Queensland

Nuțu-Gajić was the only Australian women grandmaster until 2017 and is the highest rated chess player in Australia with an Elo rating of 2350, although she has not participated in any tournament evaluated by FIDE since 1998. She now lives in Adelaide and works as a junior chess trainer.

Private life

Nuțu-Gajić studied at the Polytechnic University of Timişoara and graduated with a bachelor's degree in information technology and mathematics. Professionally, she works in the information technology field.

Web links

Commons : Daniela Nuțu-Gajić  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Romanian Championships at www.frsah.ro
  2. ↑ Daniela Nuţu-Gajic Results of the Women's Chess Olympiad at www.olimpbase.org
  3. ^ Daniela Nuţu-Gajic Results of the Balkan Championship at www.olimpbase.org
  4. ↑ a b c Big Database, ChessBase GmbH
  5. ↑ 1985 Women's Interzonal Tournament Mark Weeks, www.mark-weeks.com
  6. ↑ 1991 Subotica Interzonal Tournament Mark Weeks, www.mark-weeks.com
  7. ^ Correspondence with the Vice President of the Polish Chess Federation, Dr. Andrzej Filipowicz, who confirmed details of the 1995 Nadole tournament. 14 Jan 2014.
  8. ↑ Daniela Nutu-Gajic FIDE profile on fide.com
  9. ↑ Australian Women's Chess Championship on the website of www.auschess.org.au Australian Chess Federation
  10. ↑ South Australian Masters Steven Nicholls, www.sachess.org.au/
  11. ↑ Queensland Women and Girls Championship 1996 ( Memento January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on webchess.org
  12. ↑ Daniela Nutu-Gajic profile at chessgames.com
  13. ↑ Dana Nutu-Gajic FIDE Rating History, olimpbase.org
personal data
SURNAME Nuțu-Gajić, Daniela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuțu, Daniela Silvia (maiden name); Nutu-Terescenko, Daniela; Nutu, Dana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-Australian chess player and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara