Katrīna America

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Katrīna America (born May 31, 1991 as Katrīna Šķiņķe in Jelgava ) is a Latvian chess player .

Life

Katrīna America was a student of Grand Master Jānis Klovāns, who died in 2010 .

successes

She competed for the Latvian national women's team at the 2008 World Mind Sport Games , the 2008 , 2010 , 2012 and 2014 Chess Olympiads and the 2011 and 2015 European Team Championships . Katrīna America plays club chess in Latvia for the team of the Riga Technical University (RTU). With RTU she was able to win the Latvian team championship in 2011, where she contributed a result of seven points from seven games. In Germany they played in the 2010/11 season in both the German Chess Bundesliga and in the 2. Bundesliga Women for Delmenhorster chess club . In 2014 she won the Latvian Women's Individual Championship in Riga .

Since March 2009 she has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). She achieved the norms for this in group C of the Paul Keres Memorial in January 2007 in Tallinn , where she was able to defeat first place Maka Purtseladze , among others , in group B of the Keres Memorial in January 2008 (with overachievement) as well as at the 2008 Chess Olympiad. Your rating is 2218 (as of December 2016); she is in fourth place in the Latvian Elo ranking of women. Katrīna America achieved her highest rating to date of 2242 in July 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrīna Šķiņķes results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Katrīna Šķiņķes results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Latvian Team Championship 2011 on chess-results.com
  4. ↑ WIM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME America, Katrīna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES America, Katrina (FIDE); Šķiņķe, Katrīna (maiden name); Skinke, Katrina (FIDE spelling at birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Jelgava