Anna Sharevich (born December 18, 1985) is a Belarusian-American
Woman Grandmaster
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(WGM) in
chess
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. She won the Women's
Belarusian Chess Championship
This is a list of the winners of the Belarusian Chess Championships.
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in 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2011.
Sharevich played for team Belarus in the
Women's Chess Olympiad
The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...
in
2002
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,
2004
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Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
,
2006,
2008
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,
2010
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and
2012
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. In 2014, she
transferred national federations from Belarus to United States.
Player transfers in 2014
FIDE. She was a member of team ''Saint Louis Arch Bishops'', the 2014 champions of the United States Chess League
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.
References
External links
*
Anna Sharevich
chess games at 365Chess.com
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1985 births
Living people
Chess woman grandmasters
American female chess players
Belarusian female chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
Sportspeople from Brest, Belarus
21st-century American women
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