Kerstin Kunze (born 23 August 1971) is a German chess FIDE titles (2003) who won East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1989).
Chess career
At the age of fifteen, Kerstin Kunze took part in an East Germany Women's Chess Championship for the first time. It was February 1987 at the East Germany Women's Chess Championship in
Glauchau when
Iris Mai won.
[ 36. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft der DDR Februar 1987 in Glauchau]
Kerstin Kunze scored 50 percent at an international women's tournament in October 1987 in Halle, which Svetlana Prudnikova won.
[ Internationales Damenturnier 1987 in Halle] She took part in the East Germany Women's Chess Championship in
Stralsund in 1988 when Antje Riedel won.
[ 37. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft der DDR 1988 in Stralsund] In February 1989 she became East German Women's Chess Champion in
Zittau.
[ 38. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft der DDR, Februar 1989 in Zittau]
Other her tournaments followed:
Team Championships
In the
Chess Bundesliga she played in the seasons 1991/92 for
TSV Schott Mainz, 1992/93 for the
USV Potsdam, 1994/95 and 1995/96 for the
Dresdner SC, 1996/97 and 1999/2000 for the
SV Chemie Guben, 2000/01 for the
SC Leipzig-Gohlis, as well as 2007/08, 2009/10 and 2010/11 for
SAV Torgelow.
She won the Chess Women's Bundesliga with Dresdner SC in the 1994/95 season and the Chess Women's Bundesliga 2012 in blitz chess with USV Potsdam.
Other
In 2003 she received the title
FIDE titles (WIM) from the
FIDE in 2003. She achieved the three norms for this in 1989 in Zittau at the East Germany Women's Chess Championship, in 1989 in Dresden at an International Women's Chess tournament and in the Chess Women's Bundesliga (1999/2000).
[ Title Applications 74th FIDE Congress, Halkidiki, Greece, 2003 Woman International Master (WIM)]
Īn July 1989 she reached her highest Elo rating - 2215.[ FIDE rating history :: Kunze, Kerstin]
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