Kateřina Němcová
_(cropped).jpg) Němcová in 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 14, 1990 |
| Chess career | |
| Country |  Czech Republic (until 2013).png){kind=small} United States (since 2013) |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (2008) |
| Peak rating | 2382 (April 2013) |
Kateřina Němcová (born November 14, 1990) is a Czech and American chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was women's Czech champion in 2008 and 2010. She came second in the World Youth Chess Championship of 2007 and won the European Youth Chess Championship of 2008.
Němcová transferred national federations from Czech Republic to the United States in 2013.[1] She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2017.
Němcová attended Webster University, where she was a member of Susan Polgar's and Paul Truong's SPICE (Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence) Program.
References
- ↑ Player transfers in 2013 Archived February 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. FIDE.
External links
Media related to Kateřina Němcová at Wikimedia Commons
- Katerina Nemcova rating card at FIDE
- Katerina Nemcova rating and tournament record at US Chess Federation
- Katerina Nemcova chess games at 365Chess.com
- Katerina Nemcova player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Katerina Nemcova Women's Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
Categories:
- 1990 births
- Living people
- American female chess players
- Czech female chess players
- Czech chess players
- Chess Woman Grandmasters
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- Chess players from Prague
- Czech emigrants to the United States
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- 21st-century American chess players
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- American expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Czech expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Czech chess biography stubs