Denise won the Austrian Youth Championships in her category three times and represented Austria at several European and World Youth Championships. Last year she scored 6/6 points at the Mitropa Cup, thus Austria won the Silver Medal for the first time. Also in 2018 she played her first olympiade in Batumi (Georgia) and got 7,5 points out of 10 games. After the olympiade she reached her highest rating of 2212F. In October 2019 she will play for the Austrian National Team at the European Team Championship in Batumi (Georgia).

Presently, Denise is studying Psychology at the University of Vienna and plans to finish her Baccalaureate in 2020. To be in a good physical condition beside chess, she enjoys fitness and playing Badminton. Since 2019 she is the responsible of girls‘ chess in the Austrian Chess Federation.

Natálie started playing chess when she was 4 years old. Since then, she has won many medals at Czech championships in various categories. She represented Czech Republic at several World and European championships. Her biggest achievement was 9th place at World Girls U20 Chess Championship in 2017. She got the title of Woman International Master in 2018. Currently, she is studying at Charles University in Prague at the Faculty of Education.

Anna achieved the WFM title at the age of 13. Her highest rating was 2311. 

She won medals at the Russian Girls Championships many times. She is the multiple champion and medalist of the Moscow Women Classic and Rapid championships. She won silver at the Russian Women Team Championship in 2016 as a member of the Moscow team. In 2017 she shared 6-12 places at the European Women’s Rapid Chess Championship in Monaco. In 2019 she became a German Team Champion.

Anna graduated with honor from the Faculty of Economics of Russian State Social University in 2015. She is passionate about fitness, swimming and reading.

Zuzana had the honour to represent Slovakia on many occasions. She participated in the World Chess Olympiad in Calvia, Mallorca (2004) where the Slovak women’s team finished in the memorable 7^th place. In the same year, Zuzana won the European Union G16 championship and in 2006 she became the European women’s champion in rapid chess. Other achievements include 4th place at the European youth championship in category G12, 5th place in category G16 or 7^th place at the World Universities Chess Championship. Zuzana achieved the WGM title in 2011, the same year as finishing her Master’s degree in law.

Besides chess, Zuzana tried competing in other areas as well, e.g. she won the „Tax Challenge 2010“ competition organized for students by Ernst & Young company or took part in a poker TV show „Shark Cage” where she battled for $1000 000 against celebrities such as Jeremy Roenick, Jonathan Duhamel or Igor Kurganov.

Zuzana is registered as a mediator by the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic. She has two daughters.

Anna has become the Slovak youth champion in her category for the 15^th time last year and obtained 21 medals in total. She represented Slovakia on a number of World and European championships and youth Olympiads. She achieved the WFM title in 2015 with the highest rating of 2125F. Her highest ranking was the 25^th place in the WYCC which took place in Uruguay in 2017.

Currently, Anna is studying at International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBD) program in Bratislava. She has involved herself in many extracurricular activities. Anna is a participant of the gold DofE mentoring program and also regularly involved in sport; she mostly enjoys fitness and sprint triathlon. She is also passionate about travelling, having the opportunity to visit many countries, including Iceland, Indonesia and Japan.

Ekaterina had numerous successes in youth chess. Twice she took the second place and once the third at the Russian girls Championships, she represented Russia at the European and World Championships. She took fourth place in the girls European Championship in Georgia.

In adult chess, Ekaterina shared the second place at the international women’s tournament «Moscow Open», participated in the final of the Russian Women’s Cup. Ekaterina participated in the women’s and men’s European championships, in 2018 she participated in the women’s World rapid and blitz Championships. Ekaterina is women international master, now her rating is 2228.

Ekaterina graduated from the biology faculty of Moscow State University. While studying she became the three-time champion of Moscow among students in the team of her university, took second team place in the National Student League Cup and took third individual place among girls at the Russian Universiade.

Nikola played several International Youth Chess Championships and also won the U18 Austrian Championship once. In 2017 she reached her highest rating of 2134F, achieved the WFM title and had the chance to represent Austria at the Mitropa Cup. Last year Nikola could manage to beat her first grandmaster.

She really enjoys participating in tournaments all over the world, for example in Iceland or Denmark. Besides playing chess she also likes teaching chess to children.

At the moment, Nikola is studying Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. She likes fitness as well as different kinds of sport. Additionally, she is very passionate about travelling and she has been backpacking for nearly 4 months to Thailand, Laos and Australia after graduation.

Sandra was born on the third of June in 1988. in Niš. When she was five years old she learned to play chess by the influence of her father Željko. Sandra graduated from the Faculty of Economics, course: Revision and Accounting. She finished her master in Faculty of Mechanical Engeeniring Niš, course: International Project Managment.

Sandra’s first major succes was in 1998. by winning on the State Championship for cadets under 10 years and win the next 7 Championships in her competition where she broke all records in cadet chess ( under 18 years). As a cadet champion she participated in the European and world Championships. Sandra achieved the greatest succes by winning European Championship in rapid chess played in Novi Sad in the year of 2002, in 25 minutes.

At the age of 17, on the Youth Championship in Serbia under 20 years played in Vrnjacka Banja, Sandra won the first place.

On the Senior Championship in Serbia played in the year of 2009, Sandra won in front a number of grandmasters, Manakove, Stojanović, Benderać, Chelushkine, Maksimović etc.

Maaike has won many youth championships in the Netherlands. She also obtained a 3^rd place at the Dutch Women’s Championship in 2017 as well as shared 3^rd in 2019. Other highlights include a shared 2^nd place in the EYCC for girls under 16 in 2015, and participating in the Dutch Olympiad team in 2016. Her highest FIDE rating was 2254.

Besides playing tournaments, Maaike is very active in the chess world in other ways as well. She has worked for publisher New In Chess and is currently working for Chessable. This is an innovative online learning platform for chess that has recently been acquired by Magnus Carlsen’s company. She is also a member of the Dutch foundation “ChessQueens”, promoting women’s chess in the Netherlands.

Maaike is currently studying Economics & Business Economics at the University of Amsterdam.

Noemi was a Croation Junior U17 champion in 2016 and before that she won two bronze medals, once in girls U13 and once in the girls U17 category. In 2018 she was Croatian vice-champion for girls U19. In 2019  she won gold medal at Croatian Junior team chess championship. After that she won fourth place on Croatian Women’s championship. Her biggest success is for sure winning gold medal in this year’s Mitropa Cup for women where she was also the best player on the 4th board.

Her latest success is finishing on second place on an open tournament in Hum na Sutli (CRO) where with 7/9 she left behind a couple of GMs and IMs. This result made her a new Croatian WFM and with the new rating list in October, she should be in TOP 10 of Croatian women players. 

She currently studies mathematics at the University of Rijeka and coaches some younger players. Besides chess, she loves travelling and has visited quite number  of countries.