(1983-12-24) December 24, 1983 (age 40) Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title
Grandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating
2415 (June 2024)
Peak rating
2502 (October 2013)
Irina Borisivna Krush (Ukrainian: Ірина Борисівна Круш; born December 24, 1983) is an American chess Grandmaster. She is the only woman to earn the GM title while playing for the United States.[1][a] Krush is an eight-time U.S. Women's Champion and a two-time Women's American Cup Champion.
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Irina Borisivna Krush (Ukrainian: Ірина Борисівна Круш; born December 24, 1983) is an American chess Grandmaster. She is the only woman to earn the GM...
finish in the Cairns Cup, representing Switzerland for the first time. IrinaKrush and Bella Khotenashvili shared third place. The 2024 Cairns Cup began...
S. Women's Chess Championship with a score of 8/11, a ½-point behind IrinaKrush. In 2023, Yip finished tied for third place in U.S. Junior Girls' Championship...
than one. Nearly all female grandmasters are from Europe or Asia, and IrinaKrush of the United States is the only one from another continent. Judit Polgár's...
and 2011. In 2008, she defeated the defending U.S. women's champion, IrinaKrush, in a playoff held with the "Armageddon" format. Zatonskih is married...
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player (1993) Ukraine Anna Ushenina 2502 2007-07 1985 United States IrinaKrush 2502 2013-10 1983 Formerly highest-ranked American female player (2002)...
American Cup, a double elimination format, after she was eliminated by IrinaKrush in the Champion's Bracket, then Tatev Abrahamyan in the Elimination Bracket...
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in 2011. In December of that year she beat GM and US Women's Champion IrinaKrush on the black side of the rare Bg4 line of the King's Indian Defense Melekhina's...
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tournament with 7 out of 9. In late May 2019, Valentina faced American GM IrinaKrush in the quarterfinal match of the 2019 Women's Speed Chess Championship...
the grand final to win the American Cup. 14-year-old Alice Lee beats IrinaKrush in blitz playoffs to win the women's section. Mar 21 – Bogdan-Daniel...
Anna Zatonskih in the 2010 U.S. Women's Championship, behind the winner IrinaKrush who achieved a score of 8/9, and took second again in 2011 after drawing...
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