Shahanah Schmid

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Shahanah Schmid
CountrySwitzerland
Born (1976-02-13) 13 February 1976 (age 48)
Saanen, Switzerland
Title Woman FIDE Master (1999)
Peak rating 2135 (July 1997)

Shahanah Dawn Schmid (born 13 February 1976) is a Swiss chess player, Woman FIDE Master (1999), two time Swiss Women's Chess Championship winner (1994, 1999).

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Biography

Shahanah Schmid grew up in Saanen. She studied sociology, social anthropology and pedagogy at the University of Zurich, where she was a research assistant at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology. She then began doctoral studies at the London School of Economics. She is a teaching assistant at the Institute of Sociology there.

Chess career

She won the Swiss Girls U16 Chess Championship three times: in 1990 in Gstaad, 1991 in Uzwil and 1992 in Reiden. [1] Shahanah Schmid represented Switzerland in World Girls U20 Chess Championships (1995, 1996). [2] She has competed many times in the individual finals of the Swiss Women's Chess Championships and won gold medals two times (1994, 1999). [3] In 1999 Shahanah Schmid participated in Women's World Chess Championship Central Europe Zonal tournament in Dresden and shared 16th–17th place. [4]

Shahanah Schmid played for Switzerland in the Women's Chess Olympiads: [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Tournaments - SSB". schachbund.ch. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  2. ↑ Wojciech Bartelski. "OlimpBase :: World Girls' Junior Chess Championship :: Schmid, Shahanah". olimpbase.org. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  3. ↑ "Damen - SSB". swisschess.ch. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  4. ↑ Wojciech Bartelski. "OlimpBase :: Zonal 1.2 (Central Europe), Dresden 1999". olimpbase.org. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  5. ↑ "OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Shahanah Schmid". www.olimpbase.org.


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