Darja Kapš

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Darja Kapš 2013.jpg
Darja Kapš, Warsaw 2013
Association SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia
Born November 26, 1981
Novo mesto , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
title International Women's Champion (2002)
Women's Grandmaster (2006)
Current  Elo rating 2126 (January 2020)
Best Elo rating 2319 (July 2005)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Darja Kapš (born November 26, 1981 in Novo mesto ) is a Slovenian chess player and politician ( SD ).

Life

Darja Kapš grew up in Prelesje, a village that belongs to the Črnomelj municipality in Bela krajina ( White Mark ). She attended a grammar school in Ljubljana . After graduating from high school, she graduated in design and photography. She first studied art history , then political science . Her diploma thesis from 2009 was on The Influence of Political Parties in Election Campaigns - (In) independence of Political Parties in Election Campaigns in the presidential elections in Slovenia 2007 .

In the parliamentary elections in Slovenia in 2011 , she ran for the constituency Črnomelj-Metlika for the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia, the SD (Socialni democi). The constituency was won by Renata Brunskole from the Pozitivna Slovenija party (LZJ - PS), so Darja Kapš did not move into the Slovenian parliament.

She was an advisor in the office of the Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor .

Darja Kapš is a member of the Polanski Odmev folk singing group .

successes

Single successes

Darja Kapš won several Slovenian female youth championships: U12 (1992 and 1993), U14 (1995), U16 (1997 in Maribor ), U18 (1999) and U20 (1999 in Kranj and 2001, also in Kranj). She was able to win the Slovenian women's individual championship twice: in 2001 in Griže near Žalec in front of Jana Krivec and Ana Srebrnič and in 2004 in Maribor in front of Ana Srebrnič and Milka Ankerst .

Team chess

She played for the Slovenian women's national team at three chess Olympiads ( 2002 in Bled , 2004 in Calvià and 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk ) on the third board, as well as four European team championships (2001 in León , 2003 in Plovdiv , 2005 in Gothenburg and 2013 in Warsaw ). At the European Championships in 2001 she received an individual silver medal for her result of 5.5 points from 7 games with an Elo rating of 2456 on the second board ( Marie Sebag received gold, Elisabeth Pähtz bronze ). She was able to win the Mitropa Cup in her only participation in 2002 in Saint-Vincent , Italy . Playing on the second board behind Jana Krivec, she also received an individual gold medal for her result of 6.5 out of 7 with an Elo performance of 2520.

She played club chess in Slovenia until 2000 for Ljubljanski SK , from 2001 for LŠK Metalka Trgovina and currently (as of June 2012) for ŠD KRKA Novo mesto . In Croatia she plays for the Šk Goranka from Ravna Gora in the Gorski kotar region .

Title and rating

Since 2002 she has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). The norms for this she achieved with her eighth place at the U20 world championship of the female youth in October 2000 in Yerevan , at the team EM 2001 (also a WGM norm) as well as at the Mediterranean Cup, a WGM tournament in 2002 in Rijeka . In 2006 she was the first native of Slovenia to receive the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM). After her first norm at the EM, she achieved her second WGM norm in November 2004 at the international tournament in Montecatini Terme . In this tournament she defeated the Russian grandmaster Igor Naumkin and played a draw against the grandmasters Igor Miladinović and Stefan Djurić . Your score of 7 points from 11 games was also a norm for obtaining the title of International Master (IM). Darja Kapš achieved her final WGM standard at the Hotel Petra invitation tournament in Rome in March 2005. The Slovenian Chess Federation applied for the title in June 2005. At the 76th FIDE Congress in Dresden in August 2005 , the credibility of the results of the two Italian tournaments was questioned. The doubts could only be dispelled a year later.

In February 2015 she was in fourth place in the Slovenian women's Elo ranking. With her highest rating to date of 2319, she was second in the Slovenian women's rankings in July 2005, behind Anna Musytschuk .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Candidate portrait on the SD website ( Memento from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Slovenian)
  2. ↑ Final result of the Slovenian women's individual championship 2001 (Slovenian)
  3. ↑ Final result of the Slovenian women's individual championship 2004 (Slovenian)
  4. ↑ Darja Kapš 'results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Darja Kapš 'results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ a b c WGM application to FIDE (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kapš, Darja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaps, Darja (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian chess player and politician (SD)
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Novo mesto