Elena Sedina

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Elena Sedina in the women's national league 2011/12
Association Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union (until 1991) Ukraine (1991 to 2001) Italy (since 2001)
UkraineUkraine 
ItalyItaly 
Born June 1, 1968
Kiev
title International Master of Women (1990)
Grand Master of Women (1996)
International Master (1999)
Current  Elo rating 2299 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating 2434 (April 2003)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Elena Sedina (born June 1, 1968 in Kiev ) is an Italian chess player of Ukrainian origin.

Life

Elena Sedina learned to play chess when she was seven. She was trained by the Ukrainian-Israeli chess grandmaster Artur Kogan, among others .

successes

She became Ukrainian U14 champion and won the Soviet U18 girls' championship in 1984 in Chernigov .

In 1990 Elena Sedina became the International Women's Champion (WIM). She has held the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM) since 1996 and has been International Master (IM) since 1999 . In February 2015, she was third in the Italian women's Elo ranking, behind Olga Zimina and Marina Brunello . Most recently she was among the top 25 in the women's world rankings with her highest rating of 2434 in April 2003.

She was a board member of the PCA chess players' association .

In 2001 she won the Open in San Martino di Castrozza . In the same year she won the open Swiss championship in Scuol . In 2005 she won the Australian open championship at Mount Buller , becoming the first woman to do so. Since she is married to a Swiss citizen, she was allowed to take part in the Swiss women's individual championship , which she won in Leukerbad in July 2019 . In December 2019 Sedina won the Italian women's individual championship for the first time in Padua .

National team

Sedina took part in eleven women's chess Olympiads in 1994 , 1996 , 1998 and 2000 for Ukraine, 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 and 2018 for Italy. In 1994 in Moscow , playing for the Ukrainian national team, she won an individual silver medal for her Elo performance of 2605 and an individual gold medal for her result of 10.5 out of 12 on the first reserve board, in 1996 in Yerevan she won a bronze medal for her result of 9 , 5 out of 13 on the third board. Sedina also took part with Italy in the European Women's Team Championships in 2001, 2003, 2009, 2011 , 2013 and 2015. At the Mitropapokal she played twice (2002 and 2003) in the open class as well as eight times in the women's competition, which she won with Italy in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2014, with additional individual gold medals in Olbia in 2008 and in Merlimont in 2011 .

societies

In the German women's league she was first registered for SG Heiligenhaus in the 2001/02 season , but without being used, in the following season Sedina played for USV Halle and from 2003/04 to the 2018/19 season for OSG Baden-Baden , with which she won the German women's team championship in 2004, 2005 , 2008 , 2009 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2015 , 2016 and 2018 . She plays for Mendrisio in the Swiss National League A and National League B and in 2007 she won the Swiss Team Championship. She won the British Four Nations Chess League in 2005 and 2006 with Wood Green 1 , but she has also played in the French (for Clichy-Echecs-92 ) and Italian 1st league.

At the European Club Cup she took part in the open class in 2008 with Mendrisio and in the women from 1998 to 2001 with the Slovenian club ŠK Nova Gorica and in 2011 with the Italian club ASD CS R. Fischer Chieti .

Web links

Commons : Elena Sedina  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press book for the 2004 Chess Olympiad, page 58 ( PDF , Italian; 1.9 MB)
  2. ↑ Australian Open Chess Championship 2005 ( Memento from August 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on rootyhillchess.org (English)
  3. ↑ Swiss individual championships in Leukerbad: Swiss championship title for GM Noël Studer (men), WGM / IM Yelena Sedina (women), IM Branko Filipovic (seniors) and IM Fabian Bänziger (juniors) . Article by Catherine Thürig from July 19, 2019 on the website of the Swiss Chess Federation
  4. ↑ a b Elena Sedina's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women team line-up with individual results - Women Italy. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Elena Sedina's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Elena Sedina's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Elena Sedina's results at Mitropacups for women on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Elena Sedina's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ Elena Sedina's results at European Club Cups for women on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sedina, Elena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sedina, Yelena (SBB)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev