Kateryna Dolzhykova
Ukrainian chess player (born 1988)
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Kateryna Oleksandrivna Dolzhykova (Ukrainian: Катери́на Олекса́ндрівна До́лжикова; born September 25, 1988, in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian chess player (representing Germany since 2023) holding the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM).[1]
Kateryna Dolzhykova, 2015 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 25, 1988 |
Spouse | |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Ukraine (until 2023) Germany (since 2023) |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (2024) |
| Peak rating | 2351 (October 2008) |
Chess career
She won the Ukrainian women's championship in 2011.[2][3] Dolzhykova played on the silver medal–winning Ukrainian team in the women's team event of rapid chess at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games.[4]
On July 24, 2009, she married chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.[5][6][7] The marriage later broke up.[8] Her sister Olga Dolzhykova is also a chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).[9][10]