Vera Juergens

Vera Juergens (born September 5, 1969 in Stara Sagora , Bulgaria as Wera Pejtschewa , Bulgarian Вера Пейчева ) is a German-Bulgarian chess grandmaster of women and a book author.

Career

Jürgens won the Bulgarian women's individual championship in 1990. At the European Championships for Women U20 in 1989 she was third, behind Swetlana Matwejewa and Swetlana Korkina . She represented the Bulgarian women's selection at the 1990 Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad .

Colombia - Germany (Elisabeth Pähtz, Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska, Vera Jürgens), Chess Olympiad 2006

She represented the German women's team at the 2006 Chess Olympiad in Turin . One of her successes in individual tournaments was 1st place at the zonal tournament in Graz in 1993. She also appeared as translator of the books of the former FIDE world champion Alexander Chalifmans . She played in the women's Bundesliga for Hamburger SK until 2013 and in the Oberliga Nord until 2010 for SC Melle 03 . Before that she played at SK Nienburg and then at TuS Syke . In the 2016/17 season, Jürgens is active with SF Lilienthal . At the German championship of women in rapid chess in 2002, she finished second behind Gisela Fischdick with equal points . In 2007 she won the German Women's Rapid Chess Championship and in 2012 the German Women's Blitz Championship .

She received the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM) in 1993. Her Elo number is 2270 (as of October 2017), but she is listed as inactive because she has not had an Elo rating for regional associations since the German women's team championship in Braunfels in May 2013 - has played the rated game more. Vera Juergens achieved her highest Elo rating of 2350 in July 1993. Her sister Evgenia Hansen is also a chess player and holds the title of International Women's Champion (WIM).

Jürgens has lived in Germany since 1991 and lives in Syke ( Lower Saxony ). She is married to a German chess player and has a son and a daughter.

Fonts

• Do chess players think differently? Schachverlag Kania, Schwieberdingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-931192-35-8 .

Web links

• Vera Jürgens at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Homepage of Vera Jürgens ( Memento from October 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Replayable chess games by Vera Jürgens on 365Chess.com (English)
• Elo history up to 2001 on olimpbase.org (English)
• Vera Juergens

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vera Pejtschewas results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Vera Jürgens' results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ 10th German Rapid Chess Championship for women 2002 in Barnstorf on TeleSchach
4. ↑ 15th German Women's Rapid Chess Championship 2007 in Bad Lauterberg on teleSchach