| Barbara Pernici | |
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| Country |  Italy |
| Born | 26 June 1956 Trieste, Italy |
| Title | Woman FIDE master |
Barbara Pernici (born 26 June 1956, Trieste) is an Italian chess player who holds the title of Woman FIDE master (WFM). She is a five time Italian Women's Chess Champion, professor and scientist.
From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Pernici was one of Italy's leading women chess players. She won the Italian Women's Chess Championships five times in 1974, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1981.
Barbara Pernici played for Italy in the Women's Chess Olympiads: [1]
In the following years, she stopped her chess playing career. Pernici earned a second level degree in electronics from Polytechnic University of Milan and a MS degree in computer science from Stanford University. She was a professor at University of Udine. Since 1993, she is a professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan. [2] [3]
The Polytechnic University of Milan is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design.
Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Shenzhen University. She is the second highest rated female player of all time. A chess prodigy, she was the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship.
Stefano Rosselli del Turco, Marquis, was an Italian chess player, writer and publisher. He was five times Italian champion and represented Italy in the Chess Olympiad seven times. He was a member of the famous Rosselli del Turco noble family of Florence.
The 25th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 29 and November 16, 1982, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Dana Reizniece-Ozola is a Latvian politician and chess player. She has been managing director of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) since 2021. She also served as minister of Economics (2014–2016) and minister of Finance (2016–2019) of the Republic of Latvia. Reizniece-Ozola was elected as a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Saeima of the Republic of Latvia and worked as the chairperson of the Commission on Education, Culture and Science, Member of the Legal Affairs Commission and Member of the European Affairs Commission. In chess, Reizniece-Ozola was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001. She is presently vice-president of the European Chess Union.
Daniela Nuțu-Gajić is a Romanian Australian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and chess trainer. She represented Romania in seven Chess Olympiads, winning five medals, including two individual gold medals. She won the Romanian Women's Chess Championship three times in 1978, 1979 and 1980, the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship in 1989, and the Australian Women's Chess Championship in 1995.
Tatjana Fomina is an Estonian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster and twice European senior women's champion.
Viktoria Bashkite is an Estonian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master.
Barbara Hund is a Swiss chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the daughter of Juliane and Gerhard Hund and the granddaughter of physicist Friedrich Hund and mathematician Ingeborg Seynsche.
Marina Brunello is an Italian chess player. She holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
Svetlana Petrenko is a Moldovan chess player who holds the titles of woman grandmaster and international master. She won the Moldovan Chess Championship in 2005 and is a thirteen-time Moldovan Women's Chess Champion.
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Elaine Zelia Pritchard, née Saunders, was an English chess player who held the title of Woman International Master. She was a four-time winner of the British Women's Chess Championship.
Maria Cornelia Vreeken, née Corry Bouwman, also Corry Vreeken-Bouwman, is a Dutch chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a five-time winner of the Dutch Women's Chess Championship.
Johanna Paasikangas-Tella is a Finnish chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She is a five-time winner of the Finnish Women's Chess Championship.
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Natalia Popova is a Belarusian chess player who holds the titles of Woman International Master (1999), International Arbiter (2017), and FIDE Trainer (2018). She is a five-time Belarusian Women's Chess Champion.
Deborah Evans-Quek is a Welsh chess player, five-times Welsh Women's Chess Championship winner, Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (1986).
Alexander Aird Thomson was a Scottish chess player, Scottish Chess Championship winner (1951).
Monika Gabriela Müller-Sep is a Swiss chess player, Woman Grandmaster (2014), five time Swiss Women's Chess Championship winner.
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