Harriet Hunt
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| Harriet Hunt, Warsaw 2006 |
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| Born | February 4, 1978 Oxford , UK |
| title | International Master of Women (1994) Grand Master of Women (1997) International Master (1999) |
| Current Elo rating | 2414 (August 2020) |
| Best Elo rating | 2463 (January 2009) |
| Tab at the FIDE (English) | |
Harriet V. Hunt (born February 4, 1978 in Oxford ) is an English chess master .
She is a four-time British Women's Champion (1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999), holds the Women's Grand Master's title (WGM) and is an International Master (IM).
Chess career
In 1989 she won the British U11 Championship for Women in Plymouth . In 1989 and 1990 (in Eastbourne ) she won the British U12 girls' championship. In 1990 she became the first girl to win the U10 British Championship. She also won the U13 girls' championship that year, which she won again in Eastbourne in 1991. In 1991 she was split first in the U14 championship and won the U14 girls championship at the same time. At the youth world championship for female youth U14 in Duisburg in 1992 , she came third behind Elina Danieljan and Corina-Isabela Peptan . In 1994, at the age of 16, she made her debut in the English national team at the 31st Chess Olympiad in Moscow . At the U18 World Cup (women) in Cala Galdana in 1996 , she was second behind Marta Zielińska . In 1997 she won the U20 World Junior Championship in Żagań , Poland. She received the title International Master (IM) in 2000.
In the English university championship she plays for the Jesus College Chess Society team in the highest English student league . Their team tied for first in the 2005/06 season. Harriet Hunt got 100% of the points that season.
With black pieces she prefers to answer with the Sicilian Defense .
As of August 2019, Harriet Hunt is behind Jovanka Houska in second place in the English Elo ranking, which she had led for a long time. With her highest rating to date of 2463, she was in January 2009 shared 26th in the women's world rankings with Lela Dschawachishwili .
National team
Hunt participated with the English women's team in the 1994 , 1996 , 1998 , 2000 , 2002 and 2004 Chess Olympiads . She achieved the third best result on the second board in 1998. At the European Team Championships women took 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003 in part. With the team she reached third place in 1997 and 2001, in the individual ranking she achieved the best result on the top board in 1999.
societies
In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) Hunt played in the 1993/94 season with the Invicta Knights Maidstone , from the 1994/95 season to the 1999/2000 season with the Midland Monarchs and Bigwood (the club was renamed in 1998), in the 2000/01 season for Thistle White Rose , from the 2001/02 season to the 2004/05 season at Wood Green , from the 2006/07 season to the 2007/08 season she played for Betsson.com , then in the seasons 2008/09 and 2009/10 for Pride and Prejudice . She has been playing for Blackthorne Russia since the 2011/12 season . Harriet Hunt won the 4NCL in 1994, 1995, 1997 , 1998 , 2003 and 2005. In Germany she played in the women's Bundesliga from the 1999/2000 season to the 2003/04 season for the SK Turm Emsdetten and won the German team championship with this in 2001 Women. With Emsdetten , Hunt also took part in the 2000 European Women's Club Cup .
Others
Her brother Adam C. Hunt (* 1980) is also very successful at playing chess. He is an international master with the highest rating to date of 2466, which he had in January 2008.
Extraordinary
The doctor of natural sciences works as a research fellow in archaeogenetics at the University of Cambridge . In her research assignment, she is concerned with the history of cultivation of a type of millet ( Panicum miliaceum ). Another research focus was Asplenium majoricum , a striped fern .
Web links
- Your university website ( Memento of March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Replayable chess games by Harriet Hunt on chessgames.com (English)
- Chess problems from their games (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harriet Hunt's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Harriet Hunt's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Harriet Hunt's results in the 4NCL at olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Harriet Hunt's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hunt, Harriet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hunt, Harriet V .; Hunt, Harriet V (FIDE) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chess master |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxford |