May Narva

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May Narva, 2016
Association EstoniaEstonia Estonia
Born October 22, 1999
Tallinn
title International Women's Champion (2014)
Current  Elo rating 2282 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2378 (September 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Mai Narva (born October 22, 1999 in Tallinn ) is an Estonian chess player .

Life

Mai Narva comes from a chess family. Her maternal grandfather, Boris Ritow, 1978 won the championship of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic , their maternal grandmother, Merike rotova , entitled correspondence chess grandmaster of women, their father, Jaan Narva is FIDE Master (FM) and her mother, Regina Narva , won the 2011 Estonian Women's Individual Championship and is FIDE Women's Champion (WFM). Her siblings playing chess, her older sister Triin as is candidate master of women (WCM).

She attends the Gustav Adolf High School in Tallinn. She plays club chess for the Spordiklubi Reval sport .

successes

In 2014 Mai Narva won the European Under-16 Championship for girls in Batumi . In Estonia she had won several youth championships of all ages. She won the Estonian women's individual championship in Tallinn in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020.

In 2015, playing on the first board, she won the U18 team European championship for women in Karpacz . She played for the Estonian women's national team with her mother and sister at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø , where she scored 6.5 points from 11 games. There she defeated, among others, the women's grandmaster Ana Srebrnič and the international champion Masha Klinova .

Since November 2014 she has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). She achieved the norms for this at the Chess Olympiad in August 2014 and another through winning the U16 European Girls' Championship in October 2014.

Mai Narva leads the Estonian Elo ranking for women as of February 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ U18 European Team Championships female Mai Narvas on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Mai Narva at Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ WIM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME Narva, May
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn