Elina Groberman


Elina Groberman, is an American Woman International Master. She is a co-winner of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship.

Biography

Since 1995 she moved to the United States with her family. Elina Groberman won the New York Women's Chess Championships three years in a row. In 1998, she won the Pan American Youth Girl's Chess Championship in the U18 age group. Three times she participated in the World Junior Chess Championship. In 2000, Elina Groberman shared first place with Camilla Baginskaite in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship. In 2001, Elina Groberman participated in Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Nana Ioseliani.
In 2000, she was awarded the FIDE International Women Master title.
Later she rarely participated in chess tournaments. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

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