Darja Kapš

Darja Kaps (* November 26, 1981 in Novo Mesto ) is a Slovenian chess player and politician (SD).

Life

Darja Kaps grew up in Prelesje, a village belonging to the municipality Črnomelj in Bela Krajina ( White Mark ). She attended a high school in Ljubljana. After high school she earned a degree in design and photography. She first studied art history, then political science. Had your thesis of 2009, the topic of the influence of political parties during the election campaign - ( Un ) dependence of political parties during the election campaign for the presidential elections in Slovenia in 2007.

In the parliamentary elections in Slovenia in 2011 she was a candidate for the constituency Črnomelj - Metlika for the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia, the SD ( Socialni democratic ). The electoral district was by Renata Brunskole of the party Pozitivna Slovenija ( LZJ - PS) won, so Darja Kaps not moved into the Slovenian Parliament.

She was a consultant in the Registry of the Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor.

Darja Kaps is a member of the popular singing group Polanski Odmev.

Achievements

Individual successes

Darja Kaps won several championships of the Slovenian female youth: U12 (1992 and 1993), U14 (1995 ) U16 (1997 in Maribor), U18 (1999) and U20 (1999 and 2001 in Kranj, also in Kranj ). Twice she was the Slovenian Single Women's Championship win: 2001 Griže at Žalec before Jana Krivec and Ana Srebrnič and in 2004 in Maribor before Ana Srebrnič and Milka Ankerst.

Chess team

For the Slovenian women's national team played in three Chess Olympiads (2002 in Bled, 2004 in Calvia and 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk ) on the third board, as well as four European Team Championships (2001 in León, 2003 in Plovdiv, 2005 in Gothenburg and 2013 in Warsaw). At the European Championships in 2001 she received an individual silver medal for their results by 5.5 points from 7 matches at an Elo performance of 2456 on the second board (Gold received Marie Sebag, bronze Elisabeth Pähtz ). The Mitropa Cup they won in their only participation in 2002 in the Italian Saint -Vincent. On the second board behind Jana Krivec playing they also received an individual gold medal for her score of 6.5 out of 7 with an Elo performance of 2520th

Chess club they played in Slovenia to 2000 for the Ljubljanski SK, from 2001 for the LSK Metalka Trgovina and currently (as of June 2012) for ŠD Krka Novo Mesto. In Croatia, it plays for the Šk from Ravna Gora Goranka Kotar in the landscape Gorski.

Title and rating

Since 2002, it bears the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). The standards for this they achieved with their eighth place finish at the U20 World Championship for female youth in October 2000 in Yerevan, at the European Team Championships 2001 ( at the same time a WGM norm) and the Mediterranean Cup, a WGM tournament in 2002 in Rijeka. In 2006 she became the first Slovenian to the title of Grand Master of the women ( WGM ). After her first standard at the European Championships she achieved her second WGM norm in November 2004 at the international tournament in Montecatini Terme. In this tournament, she defeated, among others, the Russian grandmaster Igor Naumkin and played draw against Grandmaster Igor Miladinović and Stefan Djuric. Your score of 7 points from 11 games was also a standard for obtaining the title of International Master (IM). Your final WGM norm achieved Darja Kaps at the invitational tournament Petra Hotel in Rome in March 2005. The title has been requested by the Slovenian Chess Federation in June 2005. At the 76th FIDE Congress in August 2005 in Dresden, the credibility of the game results of the two Italian tournaments was doubted. The question could only be resolved a year later.

Your Elo rating is 2229 (as of February 2013), so it is on the fourth place in the Slovenian Elo ranking of women. Their highest ever Elo rating was 2319 ​​in July 2005, she was then behind Anna Musytschuk Second Slovenian woman rankings.