Ruth Haring

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Ruth Haring at the 1980 Chess Olympiad
Surname Ruth Inez Haring
Association United StatesUnited States United States
Born January 23, 1955
Bourne , Massachusetts , United States
Died 29 November 2018
California
title International Women's Champion (1977)
Current  Elo rating 1771 (November 2018)
Best Elo rating 2120 (January 1987 to April 2008)

Ruth Inez Haring (born January 23, 1955 in Bourne , Massachusetts , † November 29, 2018 in Chico , California ) was an American chess player and official.

Life

Israel versus USA (Ruth Haring, Rachel Crotto and Diane Savereide ), 1980 Chess Olympiad

She took part in the US women's championships several times . At the championship in Milwaukee in 1975 , which was also carried out as a zone tournament , she reached a shared second place behind Diane Savereide under her then name Ruth Orton. In the playoff she defeated Ruth Herstein in El Paso with 3-1 and qualified for the upcoming interzonal tournament . For this success she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) in 1977, retroactively from 1975 .

In 1976 she played in the women's interzonal tournament in Roosendaal . There she got 5 points from 13 games (+2 = 6 −5) and achieved a draw against the tournament winner Elena Akhmilovskaya .

From 1974 to 1982 she played at all five chess Olympiads for the women's selection of the USA and scored 22.5 points from 45 games (+16 = 13-16). Her best result was a bronze medal on the first reserve board at the 1976 Chess Olympiad .

She was a board member of the California chess organization CalChess . From 2009 to 2011 she was Vice President of the United States Chess Federation , in August 2011 she was elected President and held this office until 2015. She was a member of the Verification Commission and the Event Commission of FIDE.

Since 1983 she has worked in the management of various companies in Silicon Valley . Ruth Haring was married to Grand Master Peter Biyiasas in 1978 for the second time . The marriage was divorced in 2005. She had two daughters and a son.

Web links

Commons : Ruth Haring  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Klein: WIM Ruth Haring, 1955-2018 , Chess.com, November 30, 2018
  2. ^ Daniel Lucas: WIM Ruth Haring, 1955-2018 , United States Chess Federation, November 30, 2018
  3. ↑ Anatoli Karpow et al.: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary , Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 249.
  4. ↑ Savereide, Orton get IM Titles . In: Chess life & review, United States Chess Federation, 1977, p. 415.
  5. ↑ Tournament table
  6. ↑ Ruth Haring's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Calchess.org , accessed July 29, 2012
  8. ↑ Verification Commission ( memento of October 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Event Commission ( memento of October 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed August 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Haring, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haring, Ruth Inez; Orton, Ruth; Biyiasas, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chess player
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourne, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH 29th November 2018
Place of death California