Katrīna Šķiņķe

Katrīna skinks (born 31 May 1991, Jelgava ) is a Latvian chess player.

For the Latvian national women she went to at the World Mind Sports Games in 2008 and at the Chess Olympiads in 2008, 2010 and 2012. Club playing chess Katrīna skinks in Latvia for the crew of the Riga Technical University (RTU ). With RTU she could win in 2011, the Latvian team championship, where she contributed a score of seven points from seven games. In Germany she starred in the 2010/11 season in both the chess Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga Women for Delmenhorster chess club.

Since March 2009, it bears the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). The standards for this purpose they scored in the C group of the Paul Keres Memorial in January 2007 in Tallinn, where they defeated the first-placed Maka Purtseladse among other things, in the B- group of the Keres Memorial in January 2008 ( with over-fulfillment ). , and at the Chess Olympiad 2008 your current and previous highest Elo rating is 2242 (as of July 2011). This puts it in fifth place of the Latvian Elo ranking of women. She was a student of the late Grandmaster 2010 Jānis Klovans.