Ekaterina Borulya Explained

Ekaterina Borulya
Country:Soviet Union (until 1991)
Ukraine (from 1992 until 1994)
Germany (from 1995)
Birth Date:31 December 1969
Birth Place:Kyiv, Ukraine
Woman Grandmaster (1994)
Rating:2299 (January 2014)
Peakrating:2385 (July 1996)
Fideid:4630610

Ekaterina Borulya (Ukrainian: Катерина Юріївна Боруля; born 31 December 1969) is a German chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1994) of Ukrainian descent who won Open German Women's Chess Championship (1994). As a physiotherapist, she is known by the name Katja Borulya.

Career and Profession

Ekaterina Borulya has held the FIDE title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) since 1994.[1] She is a qualified chess trainer (A-Trainer), qualified sports coach, physiotherapist and works for the chess center in Baden-Baden.[2]

Chess successes

Her first major tournament was the 1990 USSR Women's Chess Championship in Podolsk, which Ketevan Arakhamia won.[3] In 1994 in Wuppertal she won first place at the Open German Women's Chess Championship.[4] At the German Women's Chess Championship in 1995 in Krefeld she was second after a playoff behind Tatiana Grabuzova.[5] In 1995 in Enghien-les-Bains she outperformed her husband Yaroslav Srokovski with 5 points from 9 games.[6] First was Igor Rausis with 6.5 points ahead of Étienne Bacrot.

Team matches in the German Chess Women's Bundesliga, she first played for the Krefelder Schachklub Turm 1851 (season 1994/95 to season 2000/01), since the season 2002/03 Borulya plays for OSG Baden-Baden (until December 2004 SC Baden-Oos, from December 2004 to June 2008 OSC Baden-Baden), with which she won the Chess Women's Bundesliga in the seasons 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2010/11 and 2012/13.

At the Chess Olympiad 2002 in Bled she played for the German women's team on the reserve board.[7]

Borulya is listed as inactive by FIDE (as of November 2016) because she last played in two competitions of the Chess Women's Bundesliga 2013/14 Elo-rated games in November and December 2013.

Family

Ekaterina Borulya is married to the Chess International Master (IM) Yaroslav Srokovski.[8] They have two children: Alexander Srokovski and Andrea Jaqueline Srokovski,[9] who also have chess successes. Andrea was German Youth Chess Vice Champion in age group U10 in 2007,[10] as well as third at the German Youth Chess Championship in age groups U12 and U14.[11] Alexander's best result was a shared first place at the Baden Youth Chess Championship in age group U14.

Her twin sister Luba Borulia, also a good chess player, is married to the Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Alterman.

References

  1. Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924–2002. Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, S. 82
  2. http://www.schachzentrum-baden-baden.de/?page_id=74 Ekaterina Borulya
  3. http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/URS-ch_(Women)_1990/19277 Sowjetische Meisterschaft der Frauen 1990
  4. http://teleschach.de/damen/wuppertal1994.htm 12. Offene Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft 1994 in Wuppertal
  5. http://www.teleschach.de/damen/krefeld1995.htm 33. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft 1995 in Krefeld
  6. http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Enghien_les_Bains_1st_1995/13795 Enghien les Bains 1st 1995
  7. http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/y20ssgyi.html OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Ekaterina Borulya
  8. Spelling at the request of the man (signature), different spellings will be changed.
  9. The DWZ index card of the German Chess Federation states: Srokovskiy, Alexander; Srokovskiy, Andrea; IM Srokovskiy, Yaroslav and GM Borulya, Ekaterina Uriivna, which will probably be corrected after clarification. There are also different spellings for her husband.
  10. Web site: DWZ-Auswertung: Deutschen Meisterschaft 2007 u10 . 2022-11-15 . 2022-11-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115125639/http://altdwz.schachbund.net/turniere/2012.html?code=A722-000-U10 . dead .
  11. Web site: DWZ-Auswertung: Deutsche Einzelmeisterschaft U14w . 2022-11-15 . 2022-11-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115125639/http://altdwz.schachbund.net/turniere/2012.html?code=B124-000-14W . dead .

Notes

  1. Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924–2002. Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, S. 82
  2. http://www.schachzentrum-baden-baden.de/?page_id=74 Ekaterina Borulya
  3. http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/URS-ch_(Women)_1990/19277 Sowjetische Meisterschaft der Frauen 1990
  4. http://teleschach.de/damen/wuppertal1994.htm 12. Offene Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft 1994 in Wuppertal
  5. http://www.teleschach.de/damen/krefeld1995.htm 33. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft 1995 in Krefeld
  6. http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Enghien_les_Bains_1st_1995/13795 Enghien les Bains 1st 1995
  7. http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/y20ssgyi.html OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Ekaterina Borulya
  8. Spelling at the request of the man (signature), different spellings will be changed.
  9. The DWZ index card of the German Chess Federation states: Srokovskiy, Alexander; Srokovskiy, Andrea; IM Srokovskiy, Yaroslav and GM Borulya, Ekaterina Uriivna, which will probably be corrected after clarification. There are also different spellings for her husband.
  10. Web site: DWZ-Auswertung: Deutschen Meisterschaft 2007 u10 . 2022-11-15 . 2022-11-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115125639/http://altdwz.schachbund.net/turniere/2012.html?code=A722-000-U10 . dead .
  11. Web site: DWZ-Auswertung: Deutsche Einzelmeisterschaft U14w . 2022-11-15 . 2022-11-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115125639/http://altdwz.schachbund.net/turniere/2012.html?code=B124-000-14W . dead .

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