Denise Frick
Number of games in database: 39
Years covered: 1990 to 2012
Highest rating achieved in database: 1941
Overall record: +11 -19 =9 (39.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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A07		King's Indian Attack (5 games)
B23		Sicilian, Closed (2 games)
B42		Sicilian, Kan (2 games)

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DENISE FRICK (born Nov-26-1980) South Africa [what is this?] Frick is a WIM and a FIDE Instructor. She won her WIM title in 2004 when she won the Women's Zonal 4.3. She participated in the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012), but lost to Koneru Humpy in the first round. Frick is a qualified counselling psychologist, and her Master's thesis in this field was about the use of chess as a therapeutic tool to aid in the treatment of substance abuse.* * http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/availa...

page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 39  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. G Schwertel vs D Frick   0-1 37 1990 ? A00 Uncommon Opening 2. D Frick vs F Ballon   1-0 10 1990 S 172 C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 3. Short vs D Frick   ½-½ 20 2001 Waterglen Simul C11 French 4. R Luna vs D Frick   0-1 41 2004 36th Olympiad, Women E74 King's Indian, Averbakh, 6...c5 5. D Frick vs C Salas   ½-½ 39 2004 36th Olympiad, Women B41 Sicilian, Kan 6. V Garcia Castro vs D Frick   0-1 30 2004 36th Olympiad, Women A40 Queen's Pawn Game 7. Khye Theng Wan vs D Frick   1-0 60 2004 36th Olympiad, Women B23 Sicilian, Closed 8. D Frick vs C Swartz   ½-½ 18 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women C41 Philidor Defense 9. D Frick vs E Shabanaj   ½-½ 16 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women C00 French Defense 10. A Kopinits vs D Frick   0-1 58 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 11. E Sedina vs D Frick   1-0 26 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women B40 Sicilian 12. D Frick vs W Toubal   1-0 37 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women B99 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line 13. A Ryvova vs D Frick   ½-½ 29 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women B23 Sicilian, Closed 14. R Ribeiro vs D Frick   1-0 75 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women A07 King's Indian Attack 15. D Frick vs Z Peng   0-1 35 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack 16. D Frick vs R Amadasun   1-0 60 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed 17. D Frick vs K Lyons   1-0 28 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 18. D Richards vs D Frick   ½-½ 47 2006 37th Chess Olympiad: Women E97 King's Indian 19. D Frick vs I Gaponenko   0-1 42 2011 FIDE Women's World Team Championship B32 Sicilian 20. E Fakhiridou vs D Frick   1-0 26 2011 FIDE Women's World Team Championship B20 Sicilian 21. K Cemhan vs D Frick   1-0 37 2011 FIDE Women's World Team Championship B58 Sicilian 22. D Frick vs V Gunina   0-1 59 2011 FIDE Women's World Team Championship B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 23. D Frick vs P Rout   0-1 32 2011 FIDE Women's World Team Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 24. Thi Mai Hung Nguyen vs D Frick   1-0 40 2011 FIDE Women's World Team Championship D48 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran 25. Tan Zhongyi vs D Frick 1-0 37 2011 FIDE Women's World Team Championship D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 39

Jul-16-10    GrahamClayton: Denise Frick is a South African IM and FIDE Instructor. She is a qualified counselling psychologist, and here is the thesis that she did on the role of chess as a therapeutic tool to aid in the treatment of substance abuse: http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/availa... Nov-20-12    waustad: She seemed to revel in the limelight when she did the press conference after her loss to Humpu Koneru, who didn't come to talk about the game. She was on chesstv a lot and was photographed often by various we entities. http://www.sawomenschess.co.za/imag... http://www.londonchessclassic.com/2... http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/wp-c...

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