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2505 -lrb- april 2008 -rrb- poland warsaw -lrb- fide world rankings -rrb- no. 42 ranked woman in the november 2012 grandmaster woman grandmaster 1106619 24 march 1978 monika soćko -lrb- 2013 -rrb- monika soćko 2013.jpg monika soćko
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monika soćko

monika soćko -lrb- born bobrowska on 24 march 1978 in warsaw -rrb- is a polish chess grandmaster -lrb- gm -rrb- .
she won the polish women 's chess championship six times -lrb- in 1995 , 2004 , 2008 , 2010 , 2013 and 2014 -rrb- .
she is married to polish gm bartosz soćko .
she achieved the title of grandmaster in 2008 , to date the first polish woman player to do so .
in 2007 , soćko won an international women 's tournament in baku , azerbaijan ahead of women 's world champion antoaneta stefanova .
she won the 2009 arctic chess challenge in tromsø , in spite of being only ranked as number 16 before the tournament , while her top-ranked husband finished in 13th place .
in march 2010 she won the bronze medal at the european chess championship for woman after defeating yelena dembo and marie sebag in the tie-breaks .
in 2011 she was part of the polish women team at the european team chess championship ; they won the silver medal .
