Denise Frick Explained

Denise Frick
Country:South Africa
Birth Date:1980 11, df=yes
Fideid:14300818
Rating:1770 (October 2019)[1]
Peakrating:1941 (July 2006)

Denise Bouah (born 26 November 1980), formerly known as Denise Frick, is a South African chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master.

Biography

In 2003 Denise Frick became a Woman FIDE master (WFM), and in 2004 she received the title of Woman International master (WIM). In 2005, in Cape Town she won the Republic of South Africa Women's Chess Championship,[2] and in Lusaka won a bronze medal in the African Women's Chess Championship.[3] In 2011, in Maputo, she won a bronze medal (her second medal) in the African Women's Chess Championship.[4] In 2012, in Khanty-Mansiysk she made her debut at the Women's World Chess Championship, where she lost in the first round to Humpy Koneru.[5] In 2014 in Windhoek, she won in the FIDE zonal tournament of Africa.[6]

She has represented South Africa in multiple Women's Chess Olympiads, including 2000, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018[7]) and 2022[8] and at the World Women's Team Chess Championship in 2011.[9] She has participated three times in the Women's Chess Team tournament in the African Games (2003-2011), where she won two silvers (2003, 2007) and a bronze (2011) medal in the team competition, and in the individual competition she won the silver (2011) medal.[10]

Frick is a psychologist by education. Her master's degree work a concerned the use of chess as a therapeutic tool for assisting in the treatment of substance abuse.[11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rating Progress Chart: Bouah, Denise . ratings.fide.com . . 7 December 2021.
  2. Web site: RSA Closed Champ.Women July 2005 South Africa FIDE Chess Tournament report . ratings.fide.com . 4 April 2018 . 4 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180404201136/http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=31247 . live.
  3. Web site: 2005 African Individual Chess Championships . thechessdrum.net . 4 April 2018 . 21 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181121214323/http://www.thechessdrum.net/newsbriefs/2005/NB_AfricanCh2.html . live.
  4. Web site: 2011 AFRICAN INDIVIDUAL WOMEN´S CHAMPIONSHIP . Heinz . Herzog . Chess-Results.com . 4 April 2018 . 4 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134522/http://chess-results.com/tnr50992.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=3&turdet=yes . live.
  5. Web site: 2012 FIDE Knockout Matches : World Chess Championship (women) . Mark . Weeks . Mark-Weeks.com . 4 April 2018 . 30 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190430034932/https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/b2wo$wix.htm . live.
  6. Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Zone 4.3 Individual Chess Championships . Heinz . Herzog . Chess-Results.com . 4 April 2018 . 4 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134633/http://chess-results.com/tnr138537.aspx?lan=1&art=4&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984 . live.
  7. Web site: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Denise Frick . Wojciech . Bartelski . OlimpBase.org . 4 April 2018 . 4 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134822/http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/jz9vhprd.html . live.
  8. Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 44th Olympiad Chennai 2022 . 2022-08-09 . chess-results.com.
  9. Web site: World Women's Team Chess Championship :: Denise Frick . Wojciech . Bartelski . OlimpBase.org . 4 April 2018 . 4 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134803/http://www.olimpbase.org/playersv/jz9vhprd.html . live.
  10. Web site: All-Africa Games (chess - women) :: Denise Frick . Wojciech . Bartelski . OlimpBase.org . 4 April 2018 . 4 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134759/http://www.olimpbase.org/playersr/jz9vhprd.html . live.
  11. Chess as a therapeutic medium in a substance abuse rehabilitation centre : a narrative study . Frick . Denise . University of Pretoria . 2008-07-10 . 2263/24236 . 4 April 2018 . 4 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180404201937/https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/24236 . Dissertation . live.

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