Ljuba Kristol

Ljuba Kristol

Ljuba Danielovna Kristol ( _he. לובה דניאלובנה קריסטול; Russian: Любовь Даниэловна Кристол; born May 26, 1944, Leningrad) is a Russian-born Israeli International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.

She is most famous for winning the ICCF Women's World Championship in correspondence chess two times: between 1978 and 1984, and between 1993 and 1998.

She grew up in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and since 1976 has lived in Israel.Kristol is the four times OTB women's chess champion of Israel.She took part in four Chess Olympiads, as a member of the Israeli team. In the Olympiad in 1976 (which took place in Haifa), Kristol won with the Israeli team the gold Olympic medal.In 1989 Kristol participated in a zonal tournament in Haifa, and won 1st–2nd place.

Major tournaments that Kristol participated in

External links

* [http://www.iccf-webchess.com/PlayerDetails.aspx?id=270008 ICCF rating card for Ljuba Kristol]
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