Elina Danielian

Elina Danielian
Էլինա Դանիելյան

GM Elina Danielian, European Chess Team Championship Warsaw 2013
Country Armenia
Born (1978-08-16) 16 August 1978
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2470 (January 2016)
Peak rating 2521 (July 2011)

Elina Danielian (Armenian: Էլինա Դանիելյան; born 16 August 1978 in Baku)[1] is an Armenian chess grandmaster and six-time Armenian women's champion (1993, 1994. 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004).[2] She has represented Armenia twelve times in the Women's Chess Olympiads (1992–2014).[3] She played in the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the 5th Women's European Team Chess Championship in Plovdiv 2003.[4]

Danielian won the World Under-14 Girls Championship in Duisburg 1992 and the World Under-16 Girls Championship in Bratislava 1993. In 2001 she won the European Women's Rapid Chess Championship in Minsk.[5]

In March 2011, she was tied for first place in the Doha stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011.[6][7] Danielian won the bronze medal in the 2011 European Women's Championship in Tbilisi, scoring 8/11 points.[8]

She is married to a Dutchman and lives in the Netherlands.

References

  1. ↑ Danielian, Elina. "About me". ElinaChess.com. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "All Women's Champions of Armenia". Armchess. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Women's Chess Olympiads: Elina Danielian". OlimpBase. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  4. ↑ "5th European Team Chess Championship (women), Plovdiv 2003, Armenia". OlimpBase. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  5. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2001-10-15). "TWIC 362: European Women's Rapid and Blitz". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Koneru Humpy wins FIDE Grand Prix". The Times of India. 6 March 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  7. ↑ "FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011". FIDE. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
  8. ↑ "European Woman Chess Championship-2011". Chess-Results.com. 2011-05-18. Retrieved 21 May 2011.

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