Kateryna Dolzhykova | |
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Country |
Ukraine (until 2023) Germany (since 2023) |
Born | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | September 25, 1988
Title | Woman International Master (2005) |
Peak rating | 2351 (October 2008) |
Kateryna Oleksandrivna Dolzhykova ( Ukrainian: Катери́на Олекса́ндрівна До́лжикова; born September 25, 1988, in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian chess player (representing Germany since 2023) holding the title Woman International Master (WIM). [1]
She won the Ukrainian women's championship in 2011. [2] [3] Dolzhykova played on the silver medal–winning Ukrainian team in the women's team event of rapid chess at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games. [4]
On July 24, 2009, she married chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin. [5] [6] [7] The marriage later broke up. [8] Her sister Olga Dolzhykova is also a chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). [9] [10]