Diane Savereide


Diane Savereide is an American chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master. She is a five-time winner of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship.

Biography

From the 1970s to the 1980s, Diane Savereide was one of the leading chess players in the United States. She is only the second American woman to achieve the National Master title. Diane Savereide won the Marshall Chess Club Women's Invitational in 1976 and 1977. She won the United States Women's Chess Championships five times, in 1975, 1976, 1978, 1981 and 1984. In 1978, Diane Savereide was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master title.
Diane Savereide played for United States in the Women's Chess Olympiads: six times:
Diane Savereide participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments four times:
She married New Zealand chess player Philip Alan Clemance, but they later divorced. From 1989 Diane Savereide gave up chess and worked as a computer programmer with NASA and then as a software developer in Los Angeles. Diane Savereide was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2010.