Dina Belenkaya
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| Full name | Dina Vadimovna Belenkaya |
| Country | Russia |
| Born | 22 December 1993 Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (2016) |
| Peak rating | 2364 (February 2019) |
Dina Vadimovna Belenkaya (Russian: Дина Вадимовна Беленькая born 22 December 1993) is a Russian chess player.[1][2] She holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM)[3] and Master of Sports of Russia. Her highest rating is 2364 (February 2019)
Early life and education
Dina Belenkaya was born in St Petersburg, she learned to play chess at the age of 3 after being taught by her mother. She graduated from St Petersburg State Polytechnic University in 2018.
Chess career
Belenkaya's professional chess career began in 2011 in Ivanovo, Russia when at the age of 17 she won the Russian First League marking 8 out of 9 points and achieving a performance rating of 2549 - one point short of a Grandmaster norm. In Avoine, France, she beat this record by finishing third in one of several French Open tournaments that year with 7 out of 9 points, beating four international masters and achieving a performance rating of 2557.
She joined the Russian national reserve team in March, 2014.
In March 2015 she won the Saint Petersburg Chess Championship. She achieved this title for the second time in 2018.
After an unexpectedly strong showing at the Chess Festival Condom 2015,[4] in September 2016 Belenkaya gained the Woman, Grandmaster designation. This victory was followed by success at Moscow Open B 2017, where she finished 3rd.; the number of points earned there were enough to qualify for the Russian Cup.
Belenkaya's single best performance was in February 2018, when she beat British KO Winner rated 2643 Elo FIDE. In March that year she played 28 simultaneous games against amateur players in a tournament organized by the French Chess Federation at Bayonne; she won 24 games. [5]
In October 2018, as a member of SSHOR Chess Club, she finished 4th in European Chess Club Cup in Porto Carras, Greece.
In April 2019 she finished 22nd on the European Individual Women's Chess Championship in Antalya, Turkey and qualifiyed for the Women World Cup 2020.[6]
Notable games
Belenkaya defeated Luke McShane at the Bunratty Masters open competition in 2018, Bunratty Four Knights (C47), 1-04.[7][8]
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya vs Dina Belenkaya, Russian Women's Team Championship, Sochi 2018, Caro-Kann Defence, Exchange Variation (B13), 0-15
Rithvik Raja vs Dina Belenkaya, Gibraltar Masters 2019, Gibraltar Queen's Gambit Accepted (D27), 0-1
References
- ^ "SC Bad Königshofen wins Women's Bundesliga". CHessbase, by Antonio Pereira, 3/4/2019
- ^ "Start des Gibraltar Chess Festivals". Schach Nachrichten, Jan. 23, 2019 by André Schulz
- ^ "Dina Belenkaya Becomes Champion of Saint Petersburg Among Women". Ruchess, 29 March 2018
- ^ "Triple norm for Dina Belenkaya in France". Chess Daily News, July 27, 2015 . Dominique Dervieux
- ^ "russe à Bayonne". Sud Ouest, 12 March 2018 Pantxika Delobel.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - EUROPEAN WOMEN'S INDIVIDUAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ "Gawain Jones shows he is no mug at Bunratty but Tiviakov has last laugh". The Guardian, Leonard Barden, 2 Mar 2018
- ^ "Bunratty", The Spectator, 3 March 2018, by Raymond Keene
External links
- Dina Belenkaya rating card at FIDE
- Dina Belenkaya : Chess Woman GrandMaster Official website
- Dina Relenkaya FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers
- Dina Belenkaya player profile and games at Chessgames.com
