Elena Sedina
Elena Sedina ( born June 1, 1968 in Kiev) is an Italian chess player of Ukrainian descent.
Life
Elena Sedina learned as a seven- year-old chess games. She was trained among others, the Ukrainian- Israeli chess Grandmaster Artur Kogan.
Achievements
She was Ukrainian champion U14 and won the Soviet U18 Championship 1984 in Chernigov.
1990 Elena Sedina International Women's Champion was (WIM). Since 1996, she has the title of Grandmaster Women ( WGM ) and since 1999 she has been an International Master of Men (IM). Your current Elo rating is 2335 (as of November 2009), so that it leads the Italian Elo ranking of women. Last among the best 25 of the Women's World Ranking she was with her highest ever Elo rating of 2434 in April 2003.
At the Chess Olympiad in Moscow in 1994 she won, for the Ukrainian national team playing an individual bronze medal for their Elo performance of 2605 and an individual gold medal for her score of 10.5 out of 12 on the first reserve board. In 1996 in Yerevan, she took a bronze medal for their result of 9.5 out of 13 on the third board. Since 1995 she plays in Italy residing in April 2001 for Italy, for example, in the Chess Olympiads in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 on top board of the Italian women's national team. She was a board member of the chess players association PCA.
In 2001 she won the Open in San Martino di Castrozza. In the same year she won the open Swiss Championship in Scuol. In 2005 she won the Australian Open Championship in Mount Buller and was the first woman who succeeded in doing so.
In the German women's Bundesliga she first plays in the season 2001/ 02 for the SG Holy House, in the following season for the UPS room, and from 2003/ 04 for the OSG Baden -Baden, with whom she once won the German team championship six. In the Swiss National League A plays for Mendrisio in 2007 and took the Swiss team championship. At the European Club Cup took from 1999 to 2001 in part with the Slovenian club ŠK Nova Gorica. In the Four Nations Chess League they played for Wood Green 1, but they also played already in the French ( for Clichy- Echecs -92) and the Italian first division.