Woman International Master
Which title was conferred to Elena Sedina in 1990?
Elena Sedina Elena Sedina ( ; , Olena Sedina ; born 1 June 1968 in Kiev ) is a Ukrainian-Italian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master ( IM ) and Woman Grandmaster ( WGM ) . She has won the Ukrainian Womens Chess Championship , the Australian Open Chess Championship , and is a Chess Olympiad and Mitropa Cup gold medalist . Career . Sedina learned to play chess at the age of seven and became womens champion of Kiev at the age of eleven . At sixteen she won the Soviet Union Girls Under-18 Chess Championship in Chernihiv 1984 . Sedina won the Ukrainian Womens Chess Championship in 1988 and again in 1990 . She obtained the titles of Woman International Master ( WIM ) in 1990 , Woman Grandmaster ( WGM ) in 1996 and International Master ( IM ) in 1999 . She moved to Italy in 1995 and transferred to the Italian Chess Federation in April 2001 . Sedina represented Ukraine in four Womens Chess Olympiads from 1994 to 2000 , and represented Italy , on board 1 , from 2004 to 2012 . Her best result was her Olympiad debut at the 31st Chess Olympiad in Moscow 1994 , where she scored 10.5/12 and won the gold medal on first reserve board , and the silver medal for best rating performance . She also won the bronze medal on board 3 at the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan 1996 . Sedina competed in the Womens World Chess Championship 2001 where she was eliminated by former Womens World Chess Champion Maia Chiburdanidze in round two , the Womens World Chess Championship 2004 where she was eliminated by Elina Danielian in round one , and the Womens World Chess Championship 2008 where she made it to round three but was eliminated by eventual runner-up Hou Yifan in the rapid playoffs . Along with Jana Krivec , she scored a perfect 7/7 in the 1997 Slovenian Womens Team Chess Championship , and was the top scorer with 8/9 in the 1999 Swiss Team Chess Championship . She won the San Martino di Castrozza Open in 2001 , came second in the 2000 Swiss Womens Chess Championship and won the event in 2001 , and finished equal first in the Genoa Centurini Open in 2004 . In January 2005 she scored 8.5/9 to win the Australian Open Chess Championship in Mount Buller , Victoria , becoming the first woman to ever do so . In 2006 , she scored 7.5/11 and finished equal third in the 7th European Womens Chess Championship in Kuşadası , Turkey . This qualified her to play in the Womens World Chess Championship 2008 in Nalchik , Russia where she defeated Irina Krush and Nguyen Thi Than An , before being eliminated by Hou Yifan in round 3 . In 2007 , she won the bronze medal in the 5th Mediterranean Chess Championship in Sousse , Tunisia and in 2008/2009 the silver medal in the 6th Mediterranean Chess Championship in Antalya , Turkey . Sedina has represented Italy in the Mitropa Cup eight times from 2008 to 2015 . She has won two individual gold medals ( in Olbia 2008 and Merlimont 2011 ) , four team gold medals ( in 2008 , 2010 , 2011 and 2014 ) , one silver team medal ( 2015 ) and three bronze team medals ( in 2009 , 2012 and 2013 ) in the Mitropa Cup . She has played in several national chess championship teams : in Germany with OSG Baden-Baden , with Mendrisio in Switzerland , in France with the Clichy-Echecs-92 , in England with Wood Green 1 . Personal life . Sedina graduated in Economics at the University of Kiev in 1990 . She also gained a PhD in chess training methods at the Kiev Institute of Physical Culture and Sport in 1994 . External links . - Elena Sedina chess games at 365Chess.com