| Kerstin Kunze | |
|---|---|
 Kerstin Kunze in 1990 | |
| Country | Germany |
| Born | 23 August 1971 |
| Title | Woman International Master (2003) |
| Peak rating | 2215 (July 1989) |
Kerstin Kunze (born 23 August 1971) is a German chess Woman International Master (2003) who won East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1989).
At the age of fifteen, Kerstin Kunze took part in a East Germany Women's Chess Championship for the first time. It was February 1987 at the East Germany Women's Chess Championship in Glauchau when Iris Bröder won. [1] Kerstin Kunze scored 50 percent at an international women's tournament in October 1987 in Halle, which Svetlana Prudnikova won. [2] She took part in the East Germany Women's Chess Championship in Stralsund in 1988 when Antje Riedel won. [3] In February 1989 she became East German Women's Chess Champion in Zittau. [4]
Other her tournaments followed:
In the Chess Women's Bundesliga she played in the seasons 1991/92 for TSV Schott Mainz, 1992/93 for the USV Potsdam, 1994/95 and 1995/96 for the Dresdner SC, 1996/97 and 1999/2000 for the SV Chemie Guben, 2000/01 for the SC Leipzig-Gohlis, as well as 2007/08, 2009/10 and 2010/11 for SAV Torgelow.
She won the Chess Women's Bundesliga with Dresdner SC in the 1994/95 season and the Chess Women's Bundesliga 2012 in blitz chess with USV Potsdam.
In 2003 she received the title Woman International Master (WIM) from the FIDE in 2003. She achieved the three norms for this in 1989 in Zittau at the East Germany Women's Chess Championship, in 1989 in Dresden at an International Women's Chess tournament and in the Chess Women's Bundesliga (1999/2000). [12]
Īn July 1989 she reached her highest Elo rating - 2215. [13]
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