Katerina Rohonyan

Katerina Rohonyan at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Association	Ukraine (until 2006) United States (since 2006)
Born	April 25, 1984 Nikolayev
title	International Women's Champion (2002) Women's Grandmaster (2004)
Current  Elo rating	2267 (February 2019)
Best Elo rating	2377 (January 2004)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Katerina Rohonyan (born April 25, 1984 in Nikolajew ) is a Ukrainian chess player who has been playing for the US Chess Federation since 2006 .

Life

She came to the USA in 2004 on a chess scholarship from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County . In the United States Chess League she played from 2005 to 2007 for the Baltimore Kingfishers , with whom she won the title in 2005, from 2008 to 2011 for the Seattle Sluggers . She also played for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's chess team in Baltimore , where she studied computer science. After completing her studies, she works as a programmer at Microsoft and lives in Seattle .

successes

Single successes

At the European Youth Championships in Tallinn in 1997 , she was second behind Ana Matnadze . In March 2003 she became Ukrainian U20 champion in Lviv . She won the FINEK-WGM tournament in Saint Petersburg in January 2006. At the US women's championship in July 2007 in Stillwater , Oklahoma, she took third place. A year later, at the women's championship in Tulsa in May 2008 , she tied for third place. At the 2008 Women's World Cup in Nalschik , she surprisingly eliminated Natalja Schukova in the first round with 2.5: 1.5, but failed in the second round with 1.5: 2.5 to Inna Gaponenko .

Team successes

With the Ukrainian U18 national team of female youth she took part in two European championships: 2000 and 2002. Both times the Ukrainian team became European champions, while Katerina Rohonyan remained undefeated. In 2002 she received an additional silver medal for her score of 3.5 out of 5 on the second board. When she took part in the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden , she reached third place with the US women's national team.

Title and rating

In 2002 she received the title of International Women's Master (WIM), and since 2004 she has been the Women's Grand Master (WGM). She achieved the standards for her WGM title at a youth tournament in Serpukhov in September 2003 and at a standards tournament in Mykolaiv, her hometown, in July 2004. In February 2015, she was ninth in the US women's Elo ranking. She is listed as inactive by the World Chess Federation FIDE because she has not played an Elo-rated game since the 8th Annual Grant Pacific Open in April 2014.

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Katerina Rohonyan on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait on the website of the United States Chess Federation (English)
2. ↑ Katerina Rohonyan's results at the U18 European girls' team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Katerina Rohonyan's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ WGM application to FIDE (English)