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Elina Danielian
Էլինա Դանիելյան
GM Elina Danielian, European Chess Team Championship Warsaw 2013
CountryArmenia
Born (1978-08-16) 16 August 1978 (age 45)
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster
Peak rating2521 (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]

In May 2019, Elina narrowly defeated[9] grandmaster Kateryna Lagno (the reigning women's world blitz champion[10]) in round 1 of the Women's Speed Chess Championship hosted by Chess.com.[11] The match[12] was a combination blitz & bullet format with the first set being 5 minutes with a 1-second increment (5+1), the second set being 3+1, and the final set being 1+1. The match was decided by the final bullet game as the score was tied leading up to the finale.

References

  1. ^ Danielian, Elina. "About me". ElinaChess.com. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
  2. ^ "All Women's Champions of Armenia". Armchess. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. 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.
  9. ^ https://www.chess.com/news/view/women-speed-chess-championship-lagno-danielian
  10. ^ https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-lagno-win-world-blitz-chess-championships
  11. ^ https://www.chess.com/article/view/2019-speed-chess-championship#wscc2019
  12. ^ https://www.chess.com/news/view/women-speed-chess-championship-lagno-danielian-preview
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