Jessica Schmidt (née Nill, born 11 October 1979) is a German

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Women Grandmaster (WGM, 2006) who won German Women's Chess Championship (2001).

Life

She learned to play chess from her father. Her brother Oliver (born 1982) is also a strong chess player (best

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: 2255). She studied at the

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Electrical Engineering. She has been married since 2010.

Chess career

She won the German Youth Chess Championships in 1994 (girls U15 group), in

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1995 (girls U17 group) in

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and 1996 (girls U17 group) in Kerwitz. In 1995 she finished tenth at the

European Youth Chess Championship The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was al ...

in U16 girls group in

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. She won the

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individual chess championship for women in 1995 in Hofheim, in 1996 in

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and in 1997 in

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. In 2000 she was third at the women's world chess championship of the

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in Varna. In 2001 in

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she won German Women's Chess Championship. In 2011 she won the German Women's Blitz Championship in

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. In November 2000 she received the title of Women International master (WIM). Since September 2006 she has held the title Women Grandmaster (WGM). She achieved the norms for this at a WGM tournament in

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in 2004, as well as at the European Women's Team Chess Championship 2005 in Gothenburg and at the 7th European Women's Individual Chess Championship in 2006 in

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. She won the

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Women's

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Championship in 2008 in

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with a lead of 1.5 points. With the German national team, she took part in the European Women's Team Chess Championships in 2001, 2003 and 2005, receiving an individual gold medal in Gothenburg 2005 for her result of 6 points from 8 games on third board. She played in

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and in 2006 at 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 ...

for Germany. In 2007 she fought on board three of the German national team at the World Women's Team Chess Championship in

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/ref> Her first club was the Hessian ''SC Hainstadt'', after which she moved to ''VSG Offenbach''. From 1998 she played for the ''OSG Baden-Baden'' with whom she played in the Chess Women's Bundesliga seasons 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2004/05. Since the Chess Women's Bundesliga season 2007/08 she has been playing for the ''Karlsruher Schachfreunde'' (for whom she already played in the Chess Women's Bundesliga season 1999/2000 as a guest player) in the 2nd federal league South and the Oberliga Baden as well as with the women in the 1st and 2nd Chess Women's Bundesliga. In France, Jessica Schmidt plays with ''Cercle d’Echecs de Strasbourg''.

References

External links

* * * 1979 births Living people People from Offenbach (district) Chess woman grandmasters German female chess players German chess players {{Germany-chess-bio-stub