Elvira Berend
Berend in 2010
Full nameElvira Bayakhmetovna Berend
CountrySoviet Union
Kazakhstan
Luxembourg
Born (1965-09-19) 19 September 1965
Almaty, Kazakhstan
TitleFIDE Woman Grandmaster (1995)
ICCF Lady International Master (2014)
Peak rating2375 (April 2016)

Elvira Bayakhmetovna Berend (née Sakhatova, born 19 September 1965) is a Kazakhstan-born Luxembourg chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a three-time Luxembourg Chess Championship winner (1998, 2015, 2016) and four-time World Women's Over 50 Chess Championship winner (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022).

Biography

She is the younger sister of WIM Gulnar Sachs (née Sakhatova). In 1988, she took part in the USSR Women's Chess Championship final and ranked 12th place. She twice represented the Kazakh SSR team in the Soviet Team Chess Championships (1986, 1991), in which she won team silver medal in 1991.[1] After dissolution of the Soviet Union in chess tournaments she represented Kazakhstan. In 1995, Elvira Berend participated in Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in Chişinău where ranked 14th place.[2] In 1997, in Athens she wins European Women's Fast Chess Championship,[3] as well as winning the international chess tournament in Luxembourg City. In the second half of the 1990s, she married the Luxembourg International Master Fred Berend,[4] and since 1997 she has been representing Luxembourg in the chess tournaments. She holds a unique distinction of winning open (male) championship of her country 3 times.

Elvira Berend played for Kazakhstan and Luxembourg:

In 1995, she became the first female chess player in Kazakhstan to receive the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title.

As of July 2022, Berend is the second highest-rated player representing Luxembourg, behind IM Michael Wiedenkeller.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Soviet Women's Team Chess Championship :: Elvira Sakhatova". OlimpBase.org. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "1995 Kishinev Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women)". Mark-Weeks.com. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  3. ↑ "EU-ch rapid (Women) 1997". szachy.lo.pl. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "Berend, Fred". ratings.FIDE.com. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "Women's Chess Olympiads :: Elvira Berend". OlimpBase.org. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "Men's Chess Olympiads :: Elvira Berend". OlimpBase.org. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  7. ↑ "European Men's Team Chess Championship :: Elvira Berend". OlimpBase.org. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  8. ↑ "Women's Asian Team Chess Championship :: Elvira Sakhatova". OlimpBase.org. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  9. ↑ "FIDE Chess Ranking and Statistics". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2022-07-13.


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