Svitlana Demchenko (born October 4, 2003) is a Ukrainian-born Canadian

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player. Svitlana Demchenko achieved the title of

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(WFM) in 2016 and the title of

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(WIM) in 2019. Svitlana Demchenko is the 2023 Canadian Women's Closed Champion. She was a five-time Canadian Girls Champion and a two-time North American Girls Champion in different age categories. Demchenko has been a member of the Canadian Women's Olympiad Team since 2018, and has represented Canada at the Women's

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. She played on the Canadian

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 ...

team: * In 2018 Batumi Chess Olympiad on the fourth board, scoring 5½/9 (+2, =7, -0). * In 2022 Chennai Chess Olympiad on the second board, scoring 7½/11 (+6, =3, -2). * In 2024 Budapest Chess Olympiad on the fourth board, scoring 3½/8 (+2, =3, -3). She competed in the 2021 Women's Chess World Cup, where she pushed 35th seed Karina Cyfka to tiebreaks in the first round despite being rated more than 300 points lower, losing in the second set of

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tiebreaks. Launching in 2021, “Svitlana’s Smart Moves” is an educational show on

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, hosted by Svitlana Demchenko and Arne Kaehler. Svitlana has also authored several training courses for

on openings and strategy. She is an active chess streamer on

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under the name "SvetaStream".

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