Irina Berezina

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Irina Berezina, Khanty-Mansiysk, Nov 2012.jpg
Irina Berezina at the 2012 World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk
Association Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (1992 to 1993) Australia (since 1994)
RussiaRussia 
AustraliaAustralia 
Born July 7, 1965
Kiev , Ukrainian SSR
title International Champion of Women (1993)
International Champion (1999)
Current  Elo rating 2081 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2304 (January 2000)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Irina Berezina-Feldman (born July 7, 1965 in Kiev ) is an Australian chess player . Until June 1992 she played for the Soviet, until December 1993 for the Russian and since then for the Australian chess federation.

In 1992 she moved from the Ukraine to Australia with her husband Vladimir Feldman , who holds the title of International Master . Together with Irinas Berezina's older brother, the FIDE master Viktor Berezin, they run a chess school called Chess Masters in Sydney . Since 1995 she has had the official title of FIDE trainer. In 1996 she was awarded the Mick Brandon Trophy (Mick Brandon Sportswoman of the Year Award) from Maccabi New South Wales. As a player, she has the titles of International Women's Champion (WIM, since 1993) and International Master (IM, since 1999). This makes her the only woman alive who holds the IM title, but not the women's grandmaster title. In January 2016, she led the Australian women's ranking with an Elo rating of 2178. As of June 2020, she ranks fifth in the Australian women's Elo ranking with 2081 points. Her highest rating to date was 2304 in 2000.

On the top board of the Australian women's national team, she took part in seven Chess Olympiads between 1994 and 2014 with a total of 40.5 points from 76 games (+25 = 31 −20).

In 1993 she was second in the zone tournament of Jakarta . The 1995 zone tournament in Malaysia she was able to win and thereby qualified for the 1995 interzonal tournament in Chișinău , in which, however, she could not qualify for the women's world championship. In 1999 she won the Australian Women's Championship in Sydney . She won the oceanic zone tournament (female) in Korolevu on Viti Levu in 2002 as well as the 2005 zone tournament in Auckland . At the 2006 World Cup in Yekaterinburg , she was eliminated with 0.5: 1.5 in the first round against S. Vijayalakshmi . She won the 2007 zone tournament in Nadi by 1.5 points, the 2011 zone tournament in Rotorua after a tie-break against Emma Guo , and the 2013 zone tournament in Nadi again tied ahead of Emma Guo.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the chess school Chess Masters (English)
  2. ↑ Trainer card at FIDE ( Memento from November 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ^ Prize winners of the Maccabi New South Wales (English)
  4. ↑ List of all chess players who have the IM title (English)
  5. ↑ Irina Berezina's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Berezina, Irina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feldman, Irina; Berezina-Feldman, Irina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev