Nava Starr
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| Nava Starr, Bad Kissingen 1982 |
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| Association |
 Canada
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| Born | April 4, 1949 Riga |
| title | International Women's Champion (1978) |
| Current Elo rating | 2127 (November 2018) |
| Best Elo rating | 2220 (January to July 1990, July 1995) |
| Tab at the FIDE (English) | |
Nava Starr (born as Nava Gordon , married Nava Shterenberg ; born April 4, 1949 in Riga ) is a Canadian chess player of Latvian origin.
Life
Nava Starr grew up in Latvia. After marrying Sasha Shterenberg, she took on his family name. Both changed their family name to Starr when they moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She won the Canadian Women's Championships eight times from 1978 , playing under the name Nava Shterenberg until 1986. Due to her success at the Canadian Championship in 1978 in Victoria (British Columbia) , she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) from FIDE in 1978 .
She has a daughter Regina and two grandchildren. Her husband Sasha Starr is also a strong chess player. She plays very aggressively, has many combinations and loves sharp openings. She beat strong players like Pia Cramling and Barbara Hund . Both were invited to an international women's tournament in Vancouver in 1981, which Pia won ahead of Barbara. Nava Starr wrote an article in En Passant magazine entitled Why men are superior to women in chess .
Women's Candidates Tournaments
She often took part in the tournaments for the women's chess world championship . The first time she played the interzonal tournament in Alicante in 1979 . The Bad Kissingen interzonal tournament followed in 1982 . She also played the interzonal tournaments in 1985 in Havana , 1990 in Kuala Lumpur and 1993 in Jakarta .
In 2001 she took part in the Women's World Championship in Russia , which Zhu Chen won in the final against Alexandra Kostenjuk . Starr lost to Corina-Isabela Peptan 0-2 in the first round .
National team
Starr participated with the Canadian women's team at the 1976 Chess Olympiads in Haifa , 1978 in Buenos Aires , 1980 in Valletta , 1982 in Lucerne , 1984 and 1988 in Thessaloniki , 1992 in Manila , 1994 in Moscow , 1996 in Yerevan , 2002 in Bled , 2004 in Calvia , 2006 in Turin and 2014 in Tromsø part. She achieved the best result on the first board in 1976 and the third best result on the first board in 1982.
More tournaments
She took part in the following chess tournaments, among others: Internationales Open 1995 in Vienna and Zone tournament 2009 in Canada.
Individual evidence
- ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 118
- ↑ Barbara Hund: My way to success . Walter Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-7919-0216-4 , chapter “Vancouver 1981”, pp. 121–129. Report, games and photo.
- ^ FIDE World Chess Championship 2001 in Moscow for women and the preliminary rounds for men
- ↑ Nava Starrs results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
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Web links
- Replayable chess games by Nava Starr on chessgames.com (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rigid, Nava |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shterenberg, Nava; Gordon, Nava (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |