Denise Frick

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Denise Frick
CountrySouth Africa
Born (1980-11-26) 26 November 1980 (age 44)
Title Woman International Master (2004)
FIDE   rating 1770 (October 2019) [1]
Peak rating 1941 (July 2006) [1]

Denise Bouah (born 26 November 1980), formerly known as Denise Frick, is a South African chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master.

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Biography

In 2003 Denise Frick became a Woman FIDE master (WFM), and in 2004 she received the title of Woman International master (WIM). In 2005, in Cape Town she won the Republic of South Africa Women's Chess Championship, [2] and in Lusaka won a bronze medal in the African Women's Chess Championship. [3] In 2011, in Maputo, she won a bronze medal (her second medal) in the African Women's Chess Championship. [4] In 2012, in Khanty-Mansiysk she made her debut at the Women's World Chess Championship, where she lost in the first round to Humpy Koneru. [5] In 2014 in Windhoek, she won in the FIDE zonal tournament of Africa. [6]

She has represented South Africa in multiple Women's Chess Olympiads, including 2000, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 [7] ) and 2022 [8] and at the World Women's Team Chess Championship in 2011. [9] She has participated three times in the Women's Chess Team tournament in the African Games (2003-2011), where she won two silvers (2003, 2007) and a bronze (2011) medal in the team competition, and in the individual competition she won the silver (2011) medal. [10]

Frick is a psychologist by education. Her master's degree work a concerned the use of chess as a therapeutic tool for assisting in the treatment of substance abuse. [11]

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References

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  2. ↑ "RSA Closed Champ.Women July 2005 South Africa FIDE Chess Tournament report". ratings.fide.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "2005 African Individual Chess Championships". thechessdrum.net. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Herzog, Heinz. "2011 AFRICAN INDIVIDUAL WOMEN´S CHAMPIONSHIP". Chess-Results.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Weeks, Mark. "2012 FIDE Knockout Matches : World Chess Championship (women)". Mark-Weeks.com. Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Herzog, Heinz. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Zone 4.3 Individual Chess Championships". Chess-Results.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  7. ↑ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Women's Chess Olympiads :: Denise Frick". OlimpBase.org. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  8. ↑ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 44th Olympiad Chennai 2022". chess-results.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  9. ↑ Bartelski, Wojciech. "World Women's Team Chess Championship :: Denise Frick". OlimpBase.org. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  10. ↑ Bartelski, Wojciech. "All-Africa Games (chess - women) :: Denise Frick". OlimpBase.org. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  11. ↑ Frick, Denise (10 July 2008). Chess as a therapeutic medium in a substance abuse rehabilitation centre : a narrative study (Dissertation). University of Pretoria. hdl:2263/24236. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
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