Russian chess player
Elizaveta Solozhenkina |
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| Full name | Elizaveta Evgenievna Solozhenkina |
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| Country | Russia |
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| Born | (2003-09-10) 10 September 2003 (age 21) |
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| Title | Woman Grandmaster (2021) |
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| Peak rating | 2330 (April 2019) |
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Elizaveta Evgenievna Solozhenkina (Russian: Елизавета Евгеньевна Соложенкина; born 10 September 2003) is a Russian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2021.
Biography
Elizaveta Solozhenkina is the daughter of GM Evgeniy Solozhenkin. She is a Saint Petersburg chess school schoolgirl. She started playing chess from the age of five.[1] In 2015, Elizaveta Solozhenkina won the Russian Youth Chess Championship in the U13 girls age group.[2]
Solozhenkina repeatedly represented Russia at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won five medals: gold (in 2015, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U12 girls age group[3]), three silver (in 2012 and 2013, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U10 girls age group,[4][5] and in 2014, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U12 girls age group[6]) and bronze (in 2017, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U14 girls age group[7]).
In 2016, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title.[8]
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