Elisabeta Polihroniade

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Elisabeta Polirhoniade 1982 Luzern.jpg
Elisabeta Polihroniade at the 1982 Chess Olympiad
Association RomaniaRomania Romania
Born April 24, 1935
Bucharest
Died January 23, 2016
title International Women's Champion (1960)
Women's Grand Master (1982)
Best Elo rating 2310 (January 1988)

Elisabeta Polihroniade (born April 24, 1935 in Bucharest as Elisabeta Ionescu ; † January 23, 2016 ) was a Romanian chess player and author. In 1960 she became the International Women's Champion (WIM). Since 1982 she has held the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM). She won the title of national champion seven times (1966, 1970 to 1972 and 1975 to 1977).

Life

Elisabeta Polihroniade, 1979 in Rio de Janeiro

She learned the rules of chess when she was 9 years old. In 1951 she took part for the first time in a tournament, the city championship of Bucharest. In 1955 she made her international debut on the occasion of an international match between Romania and Bulgaria.

Several times she took part in qualifying tournaments for the women's world championship: She played in the zone tournaments of Sinaia 1960 (2nd place), Warna 1966, Vrnjačka Banja 1970 (shared 1st place), Wijk aan Zee 1973 (shared 1st place), Karlovy Vary 1975, Zalaegerszeg 1979 and Bydgoszcz 1981 as well as the interzonal tournaments in Ohrid 1971 , Menorca 1973 and Rio de Janeiro 1979 . At the 1961 Candidates Tournament in Vrnjačka Banja, she finished 10th with 8 points from 16 games.

In the final of the 2nd correspondence chess world championship for women, which took place from 1972 to 1977 , she came fourth with 6.5 points from 12 games.

She wrote several chess books :

  • Meciul secolului, Fischer-Spasski (1974, together with Constantin Ștefaniu, The match of the century Fischer - Spasski )
  • Olimpiadele în alb și negru (1976, Olympiad in white and black )
  • Campionii de șah ai lumii (1980, world chess champion )
  • Primii pași în șah (1982, together with Tiberiu Rădulescu, First Steps in Chess )
  • Șahul pentru toți (1984, chess for everyone )
  • 64 premii de frumusețe în șah (1990, 64 beauty prizes in chess )

She had a degree in philosophy and was a trained radio and television journalist. From 1976 to 1989 she presented weekly chess programs on Romanian television. She was also the editor of the chess magazine Gambit . Since 1986 she has also been an international chess referee . In 1998 she was made an honorary member of the World Chess Federation FIDE . Among other things, she led the competition between Anatoli Karpow and Andrei Istrățescu in Bucharest in 2005.

She was listed as inactive by FIDE because she had not played an Elo rated game since 1997 .

National team

At the 1980 Chess Olympiad , the team from Romania with Elisabeta Polihroniade, Daniela Nuțu and Margareta Mureșan played against Poland on the left.

Polihroniad took part with the Romanian women's team from 1966 to 1988 in all ten Chess Olympiads in which Romania participated (the 1976 Chess Olympiad was boycotted by the Warsaw Pact states ). With the team she reached four second (1966, 1972 , 1974 and 1982 ) and two third ( 1984 and 1986 ) places, in the individual competition she won in 1966 on the second board and in 1982 on the reserve board and in 1984 came second on the second board.

literature

  • Constantin Ştefaniu: Shah de la A la Z . Editura Sport-Turism, Bucharest 1984. p. 323.

Web links

Commons : Elisabeta Polihroniade  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A murit Elisabeta Polihroniade, Marea Maestră Internațională de șah
  2. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 78.
  3. ^ Table of the ICCF
  4. ↑ Honorary Members of FIDE (English)
  5. ↑ Elisabeta Polihroniades results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Polihroniad, Elisabeta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polihroniade-Rusu, Elisabeta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian grandmaster in chess
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2016