Anna Hahn (chess player)

Anna Hahn ( born as Anna Khan, born June 21, 1976 in Riga) is a Latvian - American chess player of Indian origin. She won the women singles championships of Latvia and the United States.

Life

In 1993 she moved with your family to Brooklyn, where he attended the Murrow High School. Her grandmother was the family name of Khan change to tap, as this would be easier to pronounce in the USA. She studied at the University of Pennsylvania economics computer science and then worked as a programmer at the investment bank Goldman Sachs while at the same computational finance studied at the New York campus of Carnegie Mellon University. She now works (as of 2009) for DE Shaw in New York City. In 2005, she served on the board of the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP).

Achievements

In 1992 she won the Latvian Championship of single women. At the Chess Olympiad 2000 in Istanbul, she participated in board Two for the U.S. women's national team. In the Women's World Championship 2000 in New Delhi, she defeated in the first round Nino Churzidse 2-0, but retired in the second round against Xu Yuhua with 0.5:1.5 from. In 2003, she won in Seattle, U.S. Individual Women's Championship in a rapid chess showdown against Jennifer Shahade and Irina Krush, after all three were equal on points after nine rounds. In the Women's World Championship in 2004 in Elista separated them in the first round against Pia Cramling with 0.5:1.5.

She wears since 1995 the title of International Master of women ( WIM). Your current Elo rating is 2235 (as of November 2011). They would thus in eleventh place of the U.S. Elo ranking of women, but is inactive because it has played since the U.S. Championship in late 2004 in La Jolla no -evaluated lot more. Their highest ever Elo rating was 2295 in the second half of 1999.