| Diane Savereide | |
|---|---|
 Savereide in 1982 | |
| Country |  United States |
| Born | November 25, 1954 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Title | Woman International Master (1978) |
| Peak rating | 2280 (January 1987) |
Diane Savereide (born November 25, 1954) is an American chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1978 and is a five-time winner of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship (1975, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1984).
From the 1970s to the 1980s, Diane Savereide was one of the leading chess players in the United States. She is only the second American woman to achieve the National Master title (Gisela Kahn Gresser being the first). Diane Savereide won the Marshall Chess Club Women's Invitational in 1976 and 1977. She won the United States Women's Chess Championships five times, in 1975, 1976, 1978 (with Rachel Crotto), 1981 and 1984. In 1978, Diane Savereide was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title.
Diane Savereide played for United States in the Women's Chess Olympiads: [1] six times:
Diane Savereide participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments four times:
She married New Zealand chess player Philip Alan Clemance, but they later divorced. From 1989 Diane Savereide gave up chess and worked as a computer programmer with NASA and then as a software developer in Los Angeles. Diane Savereide was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2010. [6]
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.
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