Svitlana Demchenko

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Svitlana Demchenko
CountryCanada
Born (2003-10-04) October 4, 2003 (age 21)
Title Woman International Master (2019)
FIDE   rating 2116 (January 2025)
Peak rating 2285 (September 2021)

Svitlana Demchenko (born October 4, 2003) is a Ukrainian-born Canadian chess player. Svitlana Demchenko achieved the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 2016 and the title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2019. [1] Svitlana Demchenko is the 2023 Canadian Women's Closed Champion. [2]

She was a five-time Canadian Girls Champion and a two-time North American Girls Champion in different age categories. [3] [4] [5] Demchenko has been a member of the Canadian Women's Olympiad Team since 2018, and has represented Canada at the Women's World Cup. [6]

She played on the Canadian Women's Chess Olympiad team:

She competed in the 2021 Women's Chess World Cup, where she pushed 35th seed Karina Cyfka to tiebreaks in the first round despite being rated more than 300 points lower, losing in the second set of rapid tiebreaks. [9]

She is an active chess streamer on Twitch under the name "SvetaStream". [10]

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