Nava Starr

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Nava Starr

Nava (Sterenberg) Starr is one of the top female chess players in Canada.

Starr was born in Riga, Latvia, on April 4, 1949 and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is married to Sasha Starr and has one married daughter, Regina and two grandchildren, Mathew and Naomi.

Starr's chess style is sharp, offensive and always looking for combinations. She favours sharp and unusual openings, such as the Grand Prix attack (Sicilian), b3 in the French, f5 variation in the Ruy Lopez and many others. She received the WIM title by winning her 1st Canadian Ladies' Chess Championship in 1978 in Victoria, British Columbia. The best players she has defeated are: Pia Cramling (Sweden), Milunka Lazarević (Former Yugoslavia), Barbara Hund (Switzerland) and Roman Pelts (Canada). Starr wrote an article in En Passant magazine dealing with the reasons "Why men are superior to women in chess".

[edit] Major tournament and match results

WIM - Current Canadian Ladies' Champion
8-times Canadian Ladies' Champion

Represented Canada at 10 Chess Olympiads
- 1976 - Haifa, Israel. Won the GOLD MEDAL on 2nd board
- 1978 - Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1st board
- 1980 - Valletta, Malta. 1st board
- 1982 - Luzern, Switzerland. BRONZE MEDAL on 1st board
- 1984 - Thessaloniki, Greece. 1st board
- 1988 - Thessaloniki, Greece. 1st board
- 1992 - Manila, Philippines. 1st bord
- 1994 - Moscow, Russia. 1st board
- 1996 - Yerevan, Armenia. 1st board
- 2002 - Bled, Slovenia. 1st board

6-times participant in the individual Women's World Championships
- 1978 - Alicante, Spain
- 1982 - Bad Kissingen, Germany
- 1985 - Havana, Cuba
- 1990 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 1993 - Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2001 - Moscow, Russia.