Johanne Charest | |
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Country | Canada |
Born | 9 February 1975 |
Title | Woman International Master (1997) |
Peak rating | 2145 (January 1997) |
Johanne Charest (born 9 February 1975) is a Canadian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1996). She is a Canadian Women's Chess Championship winner (1996).
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Charest was one of Canada leading chess players. In 1996, she won Canadian Women's Chess Championship. [1] In 2000, Johanne Charest participated in Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Marta Zielińska. [2]
Johanne Charest played for Canada in the Women's Chess Olympiad: [3]
In 1996, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title.
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