Jana Bellin (''née'' Malypetrová; born 9 December 1947) is a British, formerly Czechoslovak

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player. She was awarded the

Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

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in 1969 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1982. Bellin was born in

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

. She was the Czech Women's Champion in 1965 and 1967 under her maiden name of Malypetrová. After her marriage to

William Hartston William Roland Hartston (born 12 August 1947) is an English journalist who has written the Beachcomber column in the ''Daily Express'' since 1998. He is also a chess player who played competitively from 1962 to 1987 and earned a highest Elo ra ...

she moved to England in 1970 and won the British Women's Championship in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977 (after a play-off), and 1979. She has fifteen appearances in the Women's Chess Olympiads, representing Czechoslovakia in 1966 and 1969 and England thirteen times from 1972 through 2006, seven times on first board. At the Olympiad she earned individual silver medals in 1966 and 1976, a team bronze medal in 1968 with the Czechoslovakian team, and a team silver in 1976 with England.OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiads Jana Bellin
/ref> Bellin is a

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specialising in anaesthetics, and works in intensive care at Sandwell General Hospital,

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, England. She is also Chairman of the

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Medical Commission, which supervises

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of chess players.FIDE Handbook: Chapter 14, Doping and Drug Use
retrieved 5 March 2013 Bellin was married first to International Master

, then to Grandmaster Tony Miles, and after that to International Master Robert Bellin. She and Bellin have two sons: Robert (born 1989) and Christopher (born 1991). She is the granddaughter of thrice-Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia Jan Malypetr and cousin of author and human rights campaigner

Jiří Stránský Jiří Stránský (12 August 1931 – 29 May 2019) was a Czechs, Czech author, playwright, Translation, translator, screenwriter, twice a political prisoner of the History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989), communist regime, and human rights advocat ...

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* * 1947 births Living people Chess players from Prague British female chess players British chess players Czech female chess players Czech chess players Czechoslovak female chess players Czechoslovak chess players Chess Woman Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom {{CzechRepublic-chess-bio-stub