Makropoulou Marina

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Marina Makropoulou at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Association RomaniaRomania Romania (until 1987) Greece (since 1988)
GreeceGreece 
Born December 3, 1960
Romania
title Grandmaster of Women (1981)
Current  Elo rating 2173 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating 2325 (January 1988)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Marina Makropoulou ( Greek Μαρίνα Μακροπούλου born Pogorevici ; born December 3, 1960 in Romania ) is a Greek chess player of Romanian origin.

Life

Marina Makropoulou 1982 interzonal tournament in Bad Kissingen

Her mother is the Romanian women's grandmaster Maria Albuleț . In 2008 a tournament was held in honor of her mother. Marina had her first international appearance in 1979 at the second European Youth Championship , the 3rd European Cup for girls in Kula 1979. Nana Iosseliani won the girls' tournament in Kula ahead of Kovacs, Wiese and Barbara Hund . In the early 1980s she was one of the best Romanian chess players. She won the gold medal once (1984) and twice the bronze medal (1980 and 1983) at the Romanian Women's Championships.

Due to her international success, she was the first Romanian to receive the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) from FIDE in 1982 .

She married a Greek in 1986 and settled in Greece. She has been playing for the Greek federation since 1987, after she had not received a game permit from the Romanian federation. She won the Greek Women's Championships eight times (1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2007 and 2011).

Candidates tournaments

In 1981 she won the women's zone tournament in Bydgoszcz and thus qualified for the 1982 Bad Kissingen interzonal tournament . In Bad Kissingen she achieved 7th place, the tournament was won by Nona Gaprindaschwili .

In 1990 in the interzonal tournament for women in Kuala Lumpur , which Nona Gaprindashvili won, she reached a shared thirteenth place.

National team

In 1982 in Lucerne she played the Chess Olympiad for the Romanian women's team. The team won the silver medal and they won the bronze medal on the second board.

From 1988 to 2014 she competed in all fourteen women's chess Olympiads for Greece. It was the Olympics: 1988 in Thessaloniki , 1990 in Novi Sad , 1992 in Manila , 1994 in Moscow , 1996 in Yerevan , 1998 in Elista , 2000 in Istanbul , 2002 in Bled , 2004 in Calvià , 2006 in Turin , 2008 in Dresden , 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk , 2012 in Istanbul and 2014 in Tromsø . In addition, Makropoulou took part in the women's team championship in 2011 in Mardin and the women's European team championships in 1992, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013. She won the women's Balkans in 1978 with Romania and in 1992 with Greece.

More tournaments

She played many tournaments in Greece and abroad. There were, among others, the following individual and team competitions: In Athens she won the Akropolis women's tournament four times (1982, 1987, 1988 and 1991). She took part in the European Women's Championship in 1997, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2008 she won the bronze medal in the sixth Mediterranean Cup .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2008 tournament in honor of Maria Albuleţ with a résumé of Marina Makropoulou's mother
  2. ↑ Barbara Hund: My way to success . Walter Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, pp. 51–55, report, annotated game and cross table
  3. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 78
  4. ^ Adevărul, August 30, 2009 (Romanian), accessed February 6, 2010
  5. ↑ World Chess Championship (Women) 1990 Genting Interzonal Tournament Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  6. ↑ Marina Makropulous results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Results of the Greek team at the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad on chess-results.com
  8. ↑ Marina Makropulous results at the women's team championships at olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Marina Makropulous results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ Marina Makropulous results at Balkaniaden der Frauen on olimpbase.org (English)

swell

  • W. Litmanowicz; J. Gizycki: Schach A to Z , Volume 2, Warsaw 1987, p. 925

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personal data
SURNAME Makropoulou, Marina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pogorevici, Marina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION greek chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Romania