Regina Pokorná
Slovak-Austrian chess player (born 1982)
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Regina Theissl Pokorná (born 18 January 1982) is a Slovak-Austrian chess player holding the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Regina Pokorná at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany 2008 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Regina Theissl Pokorná 18 January 1982 |
| Chess career | |
| Country |  Slovakia (until 2015) Austria (since 2015) |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (2001) |
| Peak rating | 2429 (July 2003) |
Chess career
Pokorná was trained by Grandmaster Ján Plachetka from 1997.[1] Pokorná won the European girls under 10 championship in 1992 and the Slovak girls under 18 championship in 1996, 1997 and 1999.[2] Also in 1999 she won the European Junior Girls' Chess Championship in Patras, Greece.[3]
Pokorná represented Slovakia in eight Women's Chess Olympiads between 1998 and 2012. Her best result was in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin 2006, where she scored 7/10 and finished eighth among players playing board 3.[4]
She represented Slovakia in three European Women's Team Chess Championships from 1997 to 2001, and won the team gold medal and individual bronze medal in Batumi 1999.[5]
In 2009, Pokorná won the Slovak Women's Chess Championship.[6] She has also won, or jointly won, a series of strong women's chess tournaments, including the Mediterranean Flowers tournaments in Rijeka in 2001, 2002,[7] 2005,[8] and 2009,[2] the EWS Cup in Jakarta 2007,[9] and the Mediterranean Golden Island tournament in Vrbnik 2008.[10][11][12]
In 2015, Theissl Pokorná transferred federations to represent Austria.[13] She represented Austria in the European Championships held that year, in which they finished ninth, their best-ever performance.[14]
In 2019 Theissl Pokorná won the Austrian Women's Chess Championship.[15]
Personal life
Pokorná was born in Bratislava.[16] She went to school at the Metodova Gymnasium in Bratislava.[3] Her sister Renata Pokorna is also a FIDE-rated chess player;[17] she also has a brother called Richard. In 2010 Pokorná was living in Romania and working as a project manager.[1]
Her image was used in a sheet of four postage stamps, featuring leading female chess players, called "Chess Masters", issued in Chad in 2010.[1][18] She has two children.[19]
Notable games
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