Elena Koepke


Elena Lewuschkina in the women's Bundesliga 2012/13
Association	Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (until 2003) Germany (since 2003) Germany
Born	February 27, 1984 Tashkent , Soviet Union
title	International Master of Women (2001) Grand Master of Women (2007)
Current Elo rating	2277 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating	2346 (September 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Elena Köpke (birth name Elena Lewuschkina ; FIDE spelling Elena Levushkina , Russian Елена Сергеевна Лёвушкина ; born February 27, 1984 in Tashkent , Uzbek SSR ) is a German chess player of Uzbek origin.

Life

She learned to play chess at the age of six in the Tashkent pioneer house . She was trained first by Larisa Pinchuk ( Elo 2194) and Sergey Pinchuk (Elo 2423), later from 1998 to 2002 by the international master Vladimir Egin (Elo 2410).

Elena Köpke has lived in Munich since 2002 and has played for Germany since 2004 . Köpke has a doctorate in computer linguistics and is married to the international master Christian Köpke .

Chess successes

Elena Köpke is seven times Uzbek girls champion. At the World Championships for girls , she took fifth place in the U14 age group in Spain in 1998 and seventh place in the U16 age group in Spain in 2000. In the same year she reached fifth place at the Asian U 20 girls' championships in Mumbai and took part with the Uzbek women's national team at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul , where she scored 9.5 out of 14 points on the third board. In 2001 she became International Women's Champion (WIM) and finished ninth at the Asian Women's Championships in Chennai , which qualified for participation in the World Cup.

In 2006 Elena Levushkina won the Bavarian U25 youth championships and took third place in the Bavarian individual championships. In July 2007 she became the Women's Grand Master (WGM). In 2014 she won the 9th International Easter Open in Bad Ragaz.

Elena Köpke has been playing for SC Garching in the 2nd Bundesliga since 2012 and as a guest player for Schachfreunde Deizisau in the 1st Women's Bundesliga since 2016 . Before that she played in general game operations for SC Tarrasch 1945 Munich and in the women's Bundesliga from 2002 to 2009 for Weiß-Blau Allianz Leipzig and from 2011 to 2016 for the chess friends 1891 Friedberg , with whom she was the best result in the 2012/13 season reached second place. In the Austrian 1st Bundesliga she played in the 2011/12 season for the Kufstein / Wörgl syndicate , and in the Austrian women's Bundesliga in the 2019/20 season for the Mayrhofen / Zell / Zillertal syndicate .

With the Uzbek women's team, she took part in the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul and the Asian Women's Team Championship in Shenyang in 1999 ; as a member of the German women's national team, she took part in the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk and the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul and achieved the eighth place at the European Team Championship 2011 in Porto Carras .

Web links

Commons : Elena Köpke - Collection of Images

Replayable chess games by Elena Levushkina on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Youth World Championships 1998 (U10 to U18w) . Website of the German Chess Youth. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
↑ Youth World Cup 2000 (U10 to U18) . Website of the German Chess Youth. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
↑ Bakre, Humpy crowned junior Asian champions ( Memento November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Expressindia. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
↑ Li Ruofan, it is . In: The Hindu, September 13, 2001. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
↑ Bavarian Youth Individual Championship U25 2006 . Retrieved December 3, 2009.
↑ Bavarian Individual Championship 2006 . Website of the Bavarian Chess Federation. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
↑ Final result 9. Intern. Bad Ragaz Easter Open 2014 at chess-results.com. Retrieved June 22, 2015
↑ ^a ^b Elena Levuschkina's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
↑ Elena Levuschkina's results at the Asian women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
↑ Elena Levuschkina's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Köpke, Elena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Levuschkina, Elena (maiden name); Levushkina, Elena (FIDE); Лёвушкина, Елена Сергеевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tashkent

[1] Youth World Championships 1998 (U10 to U18w) . Website of the German Chess Youth. Retrieved December 3, 2009.

[2] Youth World Cup 2000 (U10 to U18) . Website of the German Chess Youth. Retrieved December 3, 2009.

[3] Bakre, Humpy crowned junior Asian champions ( Memento November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Expressindia. Retrieved December 3, 2009.

[4] Li Ruofan, it is . In: The Hindu, September 13, 2001. Retrieved December 3, 2009.

[5] Bavarian Youth Individual Championship U25 2006 . Retrieved December 3, 2009.

[6] Bavarian Individual Championship 2006 . Website of the Bavarian Chess Federation. Retrieved December 3, 2009.

[7] Final result 9. Intern. Bad Ragaz Easter Open 2014 at chess-results.com. Retrieved June 22, 2015

[OL-8] Elena Levuschkina's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)

[9] Elena Levuschkina's results at the Asian women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)

[10] Elena Levuschkina's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)