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Nava (Sterenberg) Starr (born Riga, Latvia, April 4, 1949) is one of the top female chess players in Canada. Riga (Rīga riːga) the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava. Latvia ( Latvija officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region. Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page She is an eight-time Canadian Ladies' champion, and a Women's International Master (WIM). The title International Master is awarded to outstanding Chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. She has represented Canada 12 times in chess Olympiads, and six times in World Championships.

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Biography, chess achievements and style

Starr was born in Latvia and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page She is married to Sasha Starr, and has one married daughter, Regina and two grandchildren, Mathew and Naomi. Sasha Starr is also a Master-strength player.

Starr's chess style is sharp, offensive and always looking for combinations. She favours sharp and unusual openings, such as the Grand Prix Attack (Sicilian), b3 in the French, f5 variation in the Ruy Lopez, the Philidor Defence as Black, and many others. The Sicilian Defence is a Chess opening that begins with the moves 1 The French Defence is a Chess opening. It is characterized by the moves 1 The Ruy Lopez, called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game outside English speaking countries, is a Chess opening characterised by the moves The Philidor Defence is a Chess opening characterised by the moves 1 She received the WIM title by winning her first Ladies' Canadian Chess Championship in 1978 in Victoria, British Columbia. This is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open Victoria (vɪkˈtɔɹiə is the capital city of British Columbia. British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C The best players she has defeated are: Pia Cramling (Sweden), Milunka Lazarević (Former Yugoslavia), Barbara Hund (Switzerland) and Roman Pelts (Canada). Pia Cramling (born on April 23, 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish Chess player Roman Shlemovich Pelts (born August 11, 1937) an Ukrainian-Canadian Chess master born in Odessa. Starr wrote an article in En Passant magazine dealing with the reasons "Why men are superior to women in chess". The Chess Federation of Canada or CFC ( French name Fédération canadienne des échecs) is Canada 's national Chess organization

Major tournament and match results

Totals in Olympiad play for Canada: 141 games (all-time Canadian women's record), +71 =41 -29, for 64. 9 per cent.

Notable chess games

External links

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