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Zirka Frometa

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Zirka Frometa
Full nameZirka Frometa Castillo
CountryCuba
Born (1963-06-07) 7 June 1963 (age 61)
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
TitleWoman Grandmaster (2008)
Peak rating2285 (January 2004)

Zirka Frometa Castillo (born 7 June 1963) is a Cuban chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2008). She is a three-time winner of the Cuban Women's Chess Championship.

Biography

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From the early 1980s to the mid 2000s, Zirka Frometa was one of the leading chess players in the Cuba. Three times she won the Cuban Women's Chess Championships: 1981, 1983, 1987. In 2008 in San Salvador she won Pan American Women's Championship.[1]

Frometa participated twice in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments:

She played for Cuba in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[4]

In 1979, Frometa was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2008.

References

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  1. ^ "FIDE Original Tournament Report". Ratings.FIDE.com.
  2. ^ "1985 Havana Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women)". Mark-Weeks.com.
  3. ^ "1987 Tuzla Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women)". Mark-Weeks.com.
  4. ^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Women's Chess Olympiads :: Zirka Frometa". OlimpBase.org.
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