Jovanka Houska

Jovanka Houska ( born June 10, 1980 in London) is an English chess player and won the title in 2005 by the FIDE International Master (IM) and in 2000 the title of Grand Master of the women ( WGM ).

Chess

After many successes Jovanka Houska other won the 1998 bronze medal at the European Youth Championships for Girls under 20 The following year, she was awarded the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). Your first WGM norm, it reached 1999 in the British Championship, while still a teenager. In 2000, she won the European U20 Girls in Avilés before Viktorija Cmilyte. In the years 2008 to 2012, she won five times in a row, the British Women's Championship.

Despite her studies she participated in many international team competitions. She participated in every Chess Olympiad in Elista between 1998 and 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Since 1999, she was also at the European Team Championships for England in action, where she and her team won a bronze medal in 2001.

In the German Chess Bundesliga Houska played in the seasons 2003/ 04 and 2004/ 05 at SV Hofheim. In the women's league she played from 1999 to 2003 for the SK Holsterhausen and in the 2011/12 season for the Karlsruhe chess friends. In the British Four Nations Chess League ( 4NCL ) Jovanka Houska played from 1993 to 2004 for Slough ( while in the 1995/96 season also played a game for Na Fianna and in the 1999/2000 season even did not play ). From 2005 to 2008 she played for the Hilsmark Kingfisher since 2008 for the Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher, which resulted from the merger of the Hilsmark Kingfisher with Wood Green. Jovanka Houska won the 4NCL 1996, 1999 and 2009. In France Houska plays for Club de L' Echiquier Deauvillais and played with this in the seasons 2009 /10 and 2011/12 in the top division (2009/ 10 in the Top 16, 2011 / 12 in the Top 12 ).

Your Elo rating is 2408 (as of March 2014), so it is number 2 of the English ranking of women. Their highest ever Elo rating was 2433 in July 2010.

Works (selection)

  • Houska, Jovanka: Caro-Kann for Black and White: a complete repertoire against 1 e4. Euro Chess Center 2008, ISBN 978-3-932336-14-0.
  • Jovanka Houska: Scandinavian. Opening series STARTING OUT, ​​Everyman Chess. 2010, 336 pages.
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