| Jul-21-06 | | Caissanist: Who is the strongest American-born woman in chess history? It turns out to be Alisa Maric. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Oct-16-06 | | nummerzwei: Is this the person to have invented the Maric Variation (3...dxe4 4.Sxe4 Dd5!) of the French?? |
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| Oct-16-06 | | Karpova: Probably not. Analyst Rudolf Maric is rather the one you are looking for |
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| Jan-10-07 | | BIDMONFA: Alisa Maric MARIC, Alisa
http://www.bidmonfa.com/maric_alisa...
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| Feb-10-07 | | Goran: Alisa survived terrible car accident two weeks ago. Best wishes for full and fast recovery |
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| Sep-22-07 | | Potos: There is official site www.alisamaric.com |
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| Aug-07-08 | | nummerzwei: Thanks, Karpova! |
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| Aug-29-08 | | wanabe2000: Alisa Maric just finished competing in the Acropolis 2008 tournament where she scored 5.5/9 (+4-2=3) for a performance rating of 2508. She had a 5th round win over a GM and two draws against GM's. She started 26th in the field and finished 16th and raised her rating from 2412 to 2428. It is nice to see her competing again. More info at: http://www.chessfed.gr/acropolis2008/ |
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| Oct-05-08 | | Karpova: Article "In the Limelight: Alisa Maric" by Harald Fietz: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt... The article is from 2002 and her match against David Baramidze from teh Dortmund Chess Meeting at that year is featured prominently. Fietz tells us about her life prior to 2002 and during that year. Excerpt: <In 1982 this brown-eyed girl won the women's championship in the chess metropolis of Belgrade. At the time she was twelve years old: she and her twin sister Miriana were born in New York on 10 January 1970. According to US law the children therefore had an American passport and dual nationality ensuring freedom to travel, something which was important during the tense political situation of the 1990s. A year after her birth her parents moved back to their native Yugoslavia. Her father, who had worked for the United Nations, returned to his professorship in mathematics, her mother taught mathematics at a high school and Alisa's twin sister also oriented herself towards numbers and formulas.
At this time in the socialist sport system, great numbers of chess instructors were available for coaching, and the journey from the family home in Belgrade city centre to the chess club was not too far. Success came rapidly in the 1980s: in 1986 Alisa won the national women's championship and then became head of the Yugoslav Olympiad team for Dubai in the same year. Except for 1992, she remained in this position for another seven “meetings of the nations”, and in 1988 the team won the bronze medal. Due to the sports boycott against Yugoslavia, the team took part in only two European team Championships - in 1999 and 2001 - and in the first appearances, in Batumi, Georgia, they won the silver medal.> |
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| Jan-10-09 | | brankat: Happy Birthday Alisa! |
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| Jan-10-09 | | blacksburg: <They are the only two twin grandmasters in history.> in general, i find it strange that there are so few examples of siblings playing chess. the only example i can think of off the top of my head is the Byrnes. no Manning brothers, no Williams sisters, nothing like that. strange. |
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| Jan-11-09 | | Ziggurat: <blacksburg> <siblings> Well, there is the Polgars, of course. Pia Cramling also has a brother, Dan, who was an active player and quite strong too. |
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| Jan-11-09 | | percyblakeney: A couple of strong sisters (#2 and #6 on FIDE's world ranking for girls): Anna Muzychuk
Mariya Muzychuk |
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| Jan-11-09 | | Karpova: There has been a discussion on this page about siblings playing chess: Ton Timman |
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| Jan-11-09 | | blacksburg: oh yeah, polgars, stupid me. i don't even think of them, you know? the other 2 kinda disappeared. |
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| Jan-11-09 | | refutor: also the kosintseva sisters
Tatiana Kosintseva
Nadezhda Kosintseva |
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| Jan-11-09 | | percyblakeney: Sisters seem to have been better at chess than brothers lately: all the Muzychuks and Kosintsevas are in the top 50 among the women, and if Susan Polgar was active there would be two Polgars there as well. |
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| May-18-09 | | gilbav: <... if Susan Polgar was active ...> And Sofia Polgar too. |
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Nov-28-09
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Mar-07-13
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Anand vs A Maric, 1988 |
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| Sep-07-14 | | waustad: <they are so far the only two twin titled players of this sort in history.>Actually there are other titled sets of twins. I know of Marta Przezdziecka and her sister Ewa Przezdziecka and Valeri Atlas and his brother Dimitry Atlas. Does anybody know of more? |
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| Sep-07-14 | | waustad: OK if you meant WGMs or IMs that may still be correct. The interview mentioned earlier uses the word "grandmaster," though WGM is the title that applies properly. Marta P. is a WGM but her sister is a WFM and with the Atlas brothers we see one IM and an FM. |
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| Jan-14-17 | | ChessHigherCat: Twin sister WGMs. I wonder what kind of ID they have to show in tournaments to make sure the right one is playing? They probably have to get different tattoos or something. |
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| Jan-10-23 | | whiteshark: <PotD> From her ceegee bio: <Her peak FIDE rating was 2489 in July 1999, making her the strongest U.S.-born woman in history. Between 27 July 2012 and 2 September 2013, she was Minister of Youth and Sports in the Government of Serbia.> Dual citizenship? I would also have some other questions... |
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