Anda Šafranska Explained

Anda Šafranska
Country:	Latvia France
Birth Date:	2 December 1960
Birth Place:	Riga, Latvia
Woman Grandmaster (1999)
Peakrating:	2367 (January 2000)

Anda Šafranska (born December 2, 1960, in Riga) is a Latvian-born chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. Anda Šafranska for many years was one of the best women's chess players in Latvia. She won the Latvian Chess Championship for women eight times: 1982, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, and 1997.

Šafranska played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads:^[1]

• In 1992, at second board in the 30th Chess Olympiad in Manila (+6, =0, -6);
• In 1994, at first board in the 31st Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+3, =3, -5);
• In 1996, at first board in the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan (+6, =4, -4);
• In 2006, at third board in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin (+1, =1, -4).

She played for Latvia in European Team Chess Championship:^[2]

• In 1992, at second board in Debrecen (+2, =2, -3);
• In 1994, at first board in Pula (+3, =1, -3).

Since 2000 Šafranska lives in Léon, France, and she now plays for France.^[3]

Šafranska played for France in World Team Chess Championship:^[4]

• In 2013, at third board in Astana (+0, =3, -3).^[5]

Married with French chess grandmaster Vladimir Lazarev.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Women's Chess Olympiads: Anda Šafranska . OlimpBase.org . 20 September 2011.
2. Web site: European Women's Team Chess Championship: Anda Šafranska . OlimpBase.org . 20 September 2011.
3. Web site: FIDE Transfers in 2010 . FIDE.com . 20 September 2011.
4. Web site: World Women's Team Chess Championship :: Anda Safranska . OlimpBase.org . 14 March 2013.
5. Web site: FIDE Women's World Chess Team Championship - Astana, Kazakhstan, 2-13 March 2013 . Astana2013.FIDE.com . 12 March 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130307003059/http://astana2013.fide.com/en/component/turnuva/?task=fileview&kid=130 . 7 March 2013.