Kateryna Rohonyan
Katerina Rohonyan ( born April 25, 1984 in Nikolayev ) is a Ukrainian chess player who plays for the U.S. Chess Federation since 2006.
Life
In the U.S., it came in 2004, by a chess scholarship from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Chess club they first played for the Baltimore Kingfishers, with whom she won the club championship in 2005. They later moved to the chess team from the University of Maryland, Baltimore in Baltimore, where she studied computer science. After completing her studies, she worked as a programmer at Microsoft and lives in Seattle.
Achievements
Individual successes
In the European Youth Championship 1997 in Tallinn, she was behind Ana Matnadse second. In March 2003, she was Ukrainian in Lviv U20 champion. The FINEK - WGM Tournament in St. Petersburg, she won in January 2006. During the U.S. Women's Championship in July 2007 in Stillwater, Oklahoma she finished in third place. A year later, at the Women's Championship in May 2008 in Tulsa, she shared the third place. In the Women's World Championship 2008 in Nalchik she turned in the first round, surprisingly Natalia Zhukova with 2.5:1.5 from, but failed in the second round with 1,5-2,5 Inna Gaponenko.
Team success
With the Ukrainian U18 national team of female youth, she participated in two European championships: 2000 and 2002, both times was the Ukrainian team European champion, while Katerina Rohonyan remained unbeaten. . In 2002, she received an additional silver medal for their result of 3.5 out of 5 on the second board. At their first participation in a Chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008 she reached the third place with the U.S. women's national team.
Title and rating
In 2002 she was awarded the title of International Women's Champion (WIM), and since 2004 it bears the title of Grand Master of the women ( WGM ). The standards for her WGM title, it achieved at a youth tournament in Serpukhov in September 2003 and at a standard tournament in her hometown of Mykolaiv in July 2004 your current Elo rating is 2329 (as of July 2009)., Making it the fourth place U.S. Elo ranking of women is. Your highest Elo rating was 2377 in January 2004.