Zirka Frometa | |
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Full name | Zirka Frometa Castillo |
Country | Cuba |
Born | Santiago de Cuba, Cuba | 7 June 1963
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.
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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