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Teodora Injac

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Teodora Injac
Injac at the 2017 World Youth Chess Championship
CountrySerbia
Born (2000-05-26) 26 May 2000 (age 24)
Belgrade,[1] Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Title
FIDE rating2429 (November 2024)
Peak rating2447 (December 2023)
Peak ranking29th woman (December 2023)

Teodora Injac (Serbian Cyrillic: Теодора Ињац; born 26 May 2000 in Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster in 2021. and the title of International Master in 2023.[2]

Chess career

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She won the Women's Serbian Chess Championship in 2018, 2019 and 2020.[3] She was the youngest ever to win the Women's Serbian Chess Championship.

She won bronze medal at the World Youth Chess Championship held in Porto Carras, Greece in 2018.[4]

At the age of 17 she became a part of women's national team of Serbia and so far has represented Serbia in four European Teams Chess Championships (2017. in Hersonissos, Crete,[5] 2019. in Batumi, Georgia,[6] 2021. in Brezice, Slovenia, [7] and 2023. in Budva, Montenegro [8])

At the European Teams Chess Championship in 2023.[9][10] she took a gold medal for the best performance on the first board (7/9,RP:2596[11]) which has earned her the first GM norm.[12] She is the first-ever female chess player from Serbia to have achieved a GM norm.

She represented Serbia in the 2018 Chess Olympiad[13] in Batumi Georgia and 2022 Chess Olympiad.[14] in Chennai, India.

She qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2021 where, seeded 63rd, she defeated Dina Belenkaya 2-0 in the first round, before being defeated by 2nd-seed Kateryna Lagno 0.5-1.5 in the second round.[15]

At the Women's Chess World Cup 2023 held in Baku, Azerbaijan, she defeated Nurai Sovetbekova 2-0 in the first round before defeating Sophie Milliet with the score of 1.5-0.5 in the second round.[16] In the third round, she went on to defeat the Women's Chess World Cup 2021 winner and the former Women's World chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk with the score of 3-1. In the fourth round, she was eliminated by Polina Shuvalova with the score of 0.5-1.5.[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Sportska budućnost Srbije: Teodora Injac, šahistkinja". rts.rs (in Serbian). 17 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Injac, Teodora". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Alexandar Indjic and Teodora Injac win Serbian championship". www.fide.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Chess Championships 2018". chess-results.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  5. ^ "European Team Championship (2017)". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  6. ^ "European Team Championship (2019)". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  7. ^ "European Team Championship (2021)". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  8. ^ [[1]]
  9. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European Team Chess Championship
  10. ^ https://chess-results.com/tnr832216.aspx?lan=14&art=81&turdet=YES&flag=30 [bare URL]
  11. ^ Performance_rating_(chess)
  12. ^ Norm_(chess)
  13. ^ "Olympiad Women 2018 2018 - 365Chess.com Tournaments". www.365chess.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  14. ^ "Calendar". www.fide.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  15. ^ "Tournament tree — FIDE World Cup 2021". worldcup.fide.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  16. ^ a b "Püşk ağacı". worldcup2023.fide.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
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