Sabina-Francesca Foișor

Sabina-Francesca Foişor 2010 at the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk .
Association	Romania (until 2008) United States (since 2008)
Born	August 30, 1989 Timișoara , Romania
title	International Women's Champion (2005) Women's Grandmaster (2007)
Current  Elo rating	2228 (February 2020)
Best Elo rating	2386 (January 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Sabina-Francesca Foisor (* 30th August 1989 in Timişoara ) is one of Romania originating chess player . Since December 2008 she has played for the US Chess Federation , whose championship she won in 2017.

Life

Sabina-Francesca Foişor comes from a family of successful chess players: her father Ovidiu-Doru Foişor and her mother Cristina-Adela Foişor carry or respectively carried the FIDE title of International Master , her sister Mihaela-Veronica Foişor, who is four years younger, is International Master of Women. In 2008 she moved to the United States to study at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County .

successes

Foișor won medals several times at the European Youth Championships in chess : 2003 bronze in the U14 age group, 2004 silver in the U16 age group and 2007 bronze in the U18 age group. In 2005 she was awarded the FIDE title of International Women's Champion, she fulfilled the required standards in the German Women's Chess League in 2003/04 and at two Acropolis WGM tournaments in Athens in 2004 and 2005. In 2007, she was appointed Grand Master of Women after she fulfilled two standards at the 21st Acropolis tournament in Athens in 2006 and at the 2007 European Women's Championship in Dresden . In 2008 she qualified to take part in the women's world chess championship in Nalchik , which she took part again in Tehran in 2017 . In 2017 Foișor won the US Women's Championship in St. Louis .

Team chess

National team

With the women's team of the United States, Foișor took part in the 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2016 and 2018 Chess Olympiads and the 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 World Women's Team Championships .

societies

In the German women's Bundesliga Foişor played in the 2003/04 season for SC Meerbauer Kiel and from 2006 to 2008 for SK Doppelbauer Kiel. In the Belgian Interclubs she played from 2006 to 2008 for the team of Cercle Royal des Echecs de Liège et Echiquier Liègeois, with whom she won the Belgian team championship in 2007 , in the United States Chess League from 2009 to 2011 for the Baltimore Kingfishers and in 2015 for the Lubbock Tornadoes.

Web links

Commons : Sabina-Francesca Foișor  - Collection of Images

• Homepage (English)
• Replayable chess games by Sabina-Francesca Foișor on chessgames.com (English)
• Replayable chess games by Sabina-Francesca Foișor on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIDE Player Transfers in 2008. FIDE, accessed on June 23, 2017 (English). 
2. ↑ WGM Sabina Foisor. In: http://uschesschamps.com . Retrieved June 23, 2017 (English). 
3. ^ Title Applications 76th FIDE Congress, 17–24 August 2005, Dresden, GER Woman International Master (WIM) Foisor, Sabina-Francesca. FIDE, accessed June 25, 2017 . 
4. ↑ 2nd quarter Presidential Board, 22-24 June 2007, Tallinn, Estonia Woman Grand Master (WGM) Foisor, Sabina-Francesca. FIDE, accessed June 25, 2017 . 
5. ↑ OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Sabina-Francesca Foisor. OlimpBase, accessed June 25, 2017 . 
6. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Women team line-up with individual results United States of America. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed March 18, 2019 . 
7. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women team line-up with individual results United States of America. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed March 18, 2019 . 
8. ↑ OlimpBase :: World Women's Team Chess Championships :: Sabina-Francesca Foisor. OlimpBase, accessed June 25, 2017 . 
9. ↑ FIDE Women's World Team Championship 2019 Team line-up with individual results United States of America. In: chess-results.com. March 14, 2019, accessed March 18, 2019 .