Erika Sziva | |
Country: | Hungary Netherlands |
Birth Date: | 8 June 1967 |
Birth Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
Woman Grandmaster (2000) | |
Rating: | 2217 (October 2019) |
Peakrating: | 2331 (January 2001) |
Fideid: | 1002457 |
Erika Sziva (born 8 June 1967) is a Hungarian born Dutch Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2000). She was a winner of the Hungarian Women's Chess Championship (1988) and a five-time winner of the Dutch Women's Chess Championship (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999).
In 1988, Erika Sziva won Hungarian Women's Chess Championship. In 1989, she married and moved to live in the Netherlands. In 1990, at Interzonal Tournament in Genting Highlands Erika Sziva ranked 12th place.[1] She five times won Dutch Women's Chess Championships: 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 1999).[2] In 2000, Erika Sziva participated in Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Natalia Zhukova.[3]
Erika Sziva played for Netherlands in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[4]
Erika Sziva played for Netherlands in the European Team Chess Championships:[5]
In 1999, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title year later.