Triin Narva (born November 12, 1994) is an Estonian
chess
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player who holds the
title
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of
Woman FIDE Master
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(2016).
Biography
Narva was born into a chess playing family. She is the granddaughter of Estonian chess champion
Boris Rõtov
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Biography
Boris Rõtov was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, where he graduated secondary school. From ...
and Woman
International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster
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Merike Rõtova
Merike Rõtova (née Merike Kuningas; born August 19, 1936), is an Estonian chess player, International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (LGM, 1996).
Biography
Rõtova was born in Tallinn. Her father was literary scholar, literary and theatre cr ...
. Her father Jaan Narva is
FIDE master
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, while both her mother
Regina Narva and her sister
Mai Narva
Mai Narva (born October 22, 1999) is an Estonian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
Biography
Mai Narva was born in a chess player's family. She is Estonian chess master Boris Rõtov's and Lady Interna ...
have won the
Estonian Women's Chess Championship.
Chess career
From 2004 to 2011, Narva won twelve Estonian Junior Chess Championships in different age groups (U10, U12, U14, U16, U18). From 2003 to 2012 she participated in the
European Junior Chess Championship The first chess youth championship in Europe was the yearly European Junior Championship for under age 20. It was played from 1971–2002. FIDE officially introduced the European Junior Championship in 1970 at their Annual Congress and so the 19 ...
s and the
World Junior Chess Championship
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s in different age groups. Her best result was a 3rd place at the European Junior Chess Blitz Championship in the group under 18 years (2012). She has won 3 silver (2010, 2011, 2012) and 4 bronze medals (2009, 2014, 2020, 2021) in the Estonian Women's Championship. Narva also won the Estonian
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and Blitz Chess Championships in 2010.
Narva played for Estonia in four
Chess Olympiad
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s:
* 2010, on the reserve board in the
39th Chess Olympiad
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in
Khanty-Mansiysk
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(+5 −2 =0);
* 2012, on the third board in the
40th Chess Olympiad
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in
Istanbul
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(+3 −3 =3);
* 2014, on the third board in the
41st Chess Olympiad
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in
Tromsø
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(+4 −3 =4);
* 2016, on the fourth board in the
42nd Chess Olympiad
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in
Baku
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(+7 −0 =2);
* 2018, on the fourth board in the
43rd Chess Olympiad (women) in
Batumi
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(+5, =2, -3);
* 2022, on the fourth board in the
44th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Chennai
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(+2, =2, -2);
* 2024, on the fourth board in the
45th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Budapest
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(+3, =3, -1).
Private life
Narva graduated from the
in 2013.
References
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1994 births
Living people
Estonian female chess players
Estonian chess players
Chess Woman FIDE Masters
Estonian people of Russian descent
Chess players from Tallinn
Chess Olympiad competitors