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Background My name is Rosa and I am a 25 years old chess player from the Netherlands. I started playing as a kid and always felt very much at home in the chess world. During my puberty, I mainly enjoyed the social environment, but in my late teens, I fell back in love with the …

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I’m Ana Gavasheli 34, from Georgia (a beautiful country), since childhood I’m in love with books (my first love) and chess (the second one) but not in chess books, I was reading them but not with that much pleasure the novels can give, which I think always was my big problem. Had a lot of success until my talent was enough for that, but as I mentioned my laziness stopped me from becoming one of the best players, which I think is achievable for any player who works hard and is a warrior inside, which I am not.

I am still actively training and developing as a player and consider to have room for improvement. Among my achievements, I´ve been Central American rapid champion, 4x National U-18 National Champion, First Category National Champion, and Third best ranked Central American U20 player.

I have been playing chess for 22 years. I won the Hungarian Rapid Championship twice (U16 and U18). I won some strong other individual tournaments in Hungary (with over 2500 rating performance)

I started playing again, and ‘’suddenly’’ I reached 2300 ELO points and officially became 3rd FIDE master ever from my small hometown, BijeloPolje. Since FM is the biggest title in my hometown, my ambition is to become IM in the next few years.

an interesting interview with a chess mentor a FIDE master from Russia Mr. Viktor Neustroev, you will get to know his story and learn from it on how to combine chess, high studies and family responsibilities.