Ekaterina Borulya

Ekaterina Borulya, Dresden 2009
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Ukraine (1992 to 1994) Germany (since 1995)
Born	December 31, 1969 Kiev , Soviet Union
title	Women's Grandmaster (1994)
Current  Elo rating	2299 (December 2019)
Best Elo rating	2385 (July 1996)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ekaterina Borulya ( Russian Екатерина Юрьевна Боруля / Jekaterina Jurjewna Borulja; born December 31, 1969 in Kiev ) is a German chess player of Ukrainian origin. As a physiotherapist , she is known under the name Katja Borulya.

Career and occupation

Ekaterina Borulya has held the FIDE title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) since 1994 . She is a certified chess trainer (A-Trainer), certified sports trainer , physiotherapist and works for the Baden-Baden Chess Center .

Chess successes

Their first major tournament was the Women's Championship of the Soviet Union in 1990 in Podolsk , which Ketewan Arachamia won. In 1994 in Wuppertal , she won first place in the Open German Championship for women . At the German Women's Championship in Krefeld in 1995 she was second after Tatiana Grabuzova after a playoff. 1995 in Enghien-les-Bains she did better than her husband Yaroslav Srokovski with 5 points from 9 games. First was Igors Rausis with 6.5 points ahead of Étienne Bacrot .

Team matches in the German Chess Bundesliga women she denied first for the Krefeld Chess Club Tower 1851 (1994/95 to 2000/01), since the 2002/03 season Borulya plays for the OSG Baden-Baden (until December 2004 SC Baden-Oos , from December 2004 to June 2008 OSC Baden-Baden), with which she won the German women's team championships in the seasons 2002/03, 2003/04 , 2004/05 , 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2010/11 and 2012 / 13 won.

At the 2002 Chess Olympiad in Bled , she played for the German women's team on the reserve board.

Borulya is listed as inactive at FIDE (as of November 2016), as she last played Elo-rated games in November and December 2013 in two competitions in the Women's Bundesliga 2013/14 .

family

Ekaterina Borulya is married to the international master Yaroslav Srokovski . They have two children: Alexander Srokovskyi and Andrea Jaqueline Srokovskyi, who also have chess successes. In 2007 Andrea was German Vice-Champion U10 and third in the German Youth Championship U12 and U14. Alexander's best result was a shared first place at the Baden Youth Championship U14.

Her twin sister Luba Borulia, also a good chess player, is married to the Israeli grandmaster Boris Alterman .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 82
2. ↑ Ekaterina Borulya in the Baden-Baden Chess Center
3. ↑ Soviet Women's Championship 1990 on 365chess (English)
4. ↑ 12th Open German Women's Championship 1994 in Wuppertal on TeleSchach
5. ↑ 33rd German women's championship 1995 in Krefeld on TeleSchach
6. ↑ Enghien les Bains 1st 1995 on 365chess (English)
7. ↑ Ekaterina Borulya's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ DWZ evaluation: German championship 2007 u10
9. ↑ DWZ evaluation: German individual championship U14w

Remarks

1. ^ ProVita in Baden-Baden, owner Katja Borulya ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Spelling at the request of the man (signature), different spellings will be changed.
3. ↑ The DWZ index card of the German Chess Federation says: Srokovskiy, Alexander; Srokovskiy, Andrea; IM Srokovskiy, Yaroslav and GM Borulya, Ekaterina Uriivna, which will probably be corrected after clarification. There are also different spellings for her husband.

Web links

Commons : Ekaterina Borulya  - Collection of Images

• DWZ index card by Ekaterina Borulya
• Replayable chess games by Ekaterina Borulya on 365Chess.com (English)