| Benita Vēja | |
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| Born | Benita Vilerte January 15, 1948 Kuldiga, Latvia |
Benita Vēja (born January 15, 1948, Kuldiga as Benita Vilerte) is a Latvian chess master who won the Latvian Chess Championship for women in 1966.
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Benita Vēja started to play chess in early childhood and won the Latvian Girl championship in 1961 but in 1963 she won Soviet Girl championship.[1] Rīga women chess championship she won twice: 1972 and 1975. She won the Latvian Chess Championship for women in 1966 (after match victory over the sixties Latvian women chess leader Astra Klovāne – 2,5:1,5), was the runner-up in 1963, and 1972 and won the third prize in 1964, 1967, and 1969. Benita Vēja played for Latvia in Soviet team chess championship in 1967 and 1972[2] and for team "Daugava" in Soviet team chess cup in 1964, 1966, 1968, and 1971.[3] In Soviet team chess championship in 1967 she won second place at girl board,[4] but in Soviet team chess cup in 1971 she won third place at first women board.[5]
By profession Benita Vēja is an engineer mathematician. Her brother Jānis Vilerts (1943 – 2001) was director at the Kuldiga Chess School but her sister Tamāra Vilerte is a Woman Grandmaster.