Vesna Rožič

Vesna Rožič ( born March 23, 1987 in Ljubljana, † August 23, 2013 in Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany ) was a Slovene chess player. She won in 2007 and 2010, the Slovenian Single Women's Championship in Ljubljana.

Life

Vesna Rožič studied medicine and died at age 26 in her last year of study at metastatic cancer of the peritoneum.

Achievements

She took for the Slovenian national team from 2001 to 2004 at four European U18 championships: 2001 and 2002 behind Ana Srebrnič on the second board as well as 2003 and 2004 on top board. For the Slovenian women's national team played in six Mitropa Cup (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012 ), with Slovenia in 2005 and 2006 won the Mitropa Cup and 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012, took second place; Vesna Rožič got to 2006 in Brno an individual gold medal for her score of 6 out of 9 on the first board. Furthermore, she played for Slovenia in four European Championships (2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011) and four Chess Olympiads (2002, 2008, 2010 and 2012 ).

Chess club they played in Slovenia for the SS Tomo Zupan Kranj (SS = Chess School ). In the Croatian Women's League, she played for the team from Zrinski Topolovac, even in the highest Greek League they played. In Austria she starred in the Carinthian League for the SK Feistritzwerke Paternion from Paternion - Feistritz an der Drau.

Since April 2006, it bore the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). The standards for this she scored at the 14th Ljubljana Open in June 2003, at the European Team Championship 2005 in Gothenburg and at the U18 European Championship in 2005 in Herceg Novi, in which they defeated, among others, Anna Rudolf and Laura Rogule and tied behind the bronze medalist Baira Kowanowa was fourth.

Your last Elo rating was 2260 in August 2013. It was thus behind Anna Musytschuk in second place of the Slovenian Elo ranking of women. Your highest Elo rating was 2310 in July 2011.