Shahanah Schmid

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Shahanah Dawn Schmid (born February 13, 1976 ) is a Swiss chess player . She is a two-time Swiss women's champion.

Life

Shahanah Schmid grew up in Saanen . She studied sociology , social anthropology and education at the University of Zurich , where she was a research assistant at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology. She then went on to study for a doctorate at the London School of Economics and Political Science . She is a teaching assistant at the Institute for Sociology there.

successes

She won the Swiss U16 championship three times: 1990 in Gstaad , 1991 in Uzwil and 1992 in Reiden . She won the Swiss women's individual championship in Lucerne in 1994 and in Grächen in 1999 .

With the Swiss women's national team, she took part in the Chess Olympiads in 1994 (on the third board) and 1998 (on the second board). Your chess club in Switzerland is the Saanenland chess club . She played club chess in Germany since 1998, there for the women's team of SV Stuttgart-Wolfbusch , where she had two appearances in the top German league in the 2006/07 season .

Since 1999 she has held the title of FIDE Women's Champion (WFM). Schmid's Elo rating is 2069 (as of October 2018), but it is listed as inactive because the German women's Bundesliga has not played a rated game since the 2006/07 season. Her highest rating was her first rating, 2135 in July 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of winners of the Swiss U16 championship 1972 to 1999 ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Honor roll of the ladies on the website of the Swiss Chess Federation (SSB)
  3. ↑ Shahanah Schmid's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Shahanah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Shahannah (misspellings); Schmid, Shahanah Dawn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chess player
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1976