Esther Danilovna EpsteinNNCF Biography /ref> (born May 10, 1954) is a
United States
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Woman International Master
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Still in the USSR, Epstein was the USSR Women's Vice-Champion in 1976. She has played for the U.S. Women's Olympiad team four times.
She is married to
chess grandmaster
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US Chess Federation
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