Ekaterina Borulya
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Ukraine (from 1992 until 1994)
Germany (from 1995)
 Ekaterina Borulya in 2009 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 December 1969 Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Soviet Union (until 1991) Ukraine (from 1992 until 1994) Germany (from 1995) |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (1994) |
| FIDE rating | 2299 (January 2014) |
| Peak rating | 2385 (July 1996) |
Ekaterina Borulya (Ukrainian: Катерина Юріївна Боруля; born 31 December 1969) is a German chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1994) of Ukrainian descent who won Open German Women's Chess Championship (1994). As a physiotherapist, she is known by the name Katja Borulya.
Ekaterina Borulya has held the FIDE title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) since 1994.[n 1] She is a qualified chess trainer (A-Trainer), qualified sports coach, physiotherapist and works for the chess center in Baden-Baden.[n 2]
Chess successes
Her first major tournament was the 1990 USSR Women's Chess Championship in Podolsk, which Ketevan Arakhamia won.[n 3] In 1994 in Wuppertal she won first place at the Open German Women's Chess Championship.[n 4] At the German Women's Chess Championship in 1995 in Krefeld she was second after a playoff behind Tatiana Grabuzova.[n 5] In 1995 in Enghien-les-Bains she outperformed her husband Yaroslav Srokovski with 5 points from 9 games.[n 6] First was Igor Rausis with 6.5 points ahead of Étienne Bacrot.
Team matches in the German Chess Women's Bundesliga, she first played for the Krefelder Schachklub Turm 1851 (season 1994/95 to season 2000/01), since the season 2002/03 Borulya plays for OSG Baden-Baden (until December 2004 SC Baden-Oos, from December 2004 to June 2008 OSC Baden-Baden), with which she won the Chess Women's Bundesliga in the seasons 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2010/11 and 2012/13.
At the Chess Olympiad 2002 in Bled she played for the German women's team on the reserve board.[n 7]
Borulya is listed as inactive by FIDE (as of November 2016) because she last played in two competitions of the Chess Women's Bundesliga 2013/14 Elo-rated games in November and December 2013.
Family
Ekaterina Borulya is married to the Chess International Master (IM) Yaroslav Srokovski.[a 1] They have two children: Alexander Srokovski and Andrea Jaqueline Srokovski,[a 2] who also have chess successes. Andrea was German Youth Chess Vice Champion in age group U10 in 2007,[n 8] as well as third at the German Youth Chess Championship in age groups U12 and U14.[n 9] Alexander's best result was a shared first place at the Baden Youth Chess Championship in age group U14.
Her twin sister Luba Borulia, also a good chess player, is married to the Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Alterman.