Zirka Frometa

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Zirka Frometa
Full nameZirka Frometa Castillo
Country Cuba
Born (1963-06-07) 7 June 1963 (age 60)
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Title Woman Grandmaster (2008)
Peak rating 2285 (January 2004)

Zirka Frometa Castillo (born 7 June 1963) is a Cuban chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2008). She is a three-time winner of the Cuban Women's Chess Championship.

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Biography

From the early 1980s to the mid 2000s, Zirka Frometa was one of the leading chess players in the Cuba. Three times she won the Cuban Women's Chess Championships: 1981, 1983, 1987. In 2008 in San Salvador she won Pan American Women's Championship. [1]

Frometa participated twice in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments:

She played for Cuba in the Women's Chess Olympiads: [4]

In 1979, Frometa was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2008.

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References

  1. "FIDE Original Tournament Report". Ratings.FIDE.com.
  2. "1985 Havana Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women)". Mark-Weeks.com.
  3. "1987 Tuzla Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women)". Mark-Weeks.com.
  4. Bartelski, Wojciech. "Women's Chess Olympiads :: Zirka Frometa". OlimpBase.org.