Vera Jürgens
German chess player
Vera Jürgens (née Peicheva, born 5 September 1969), also known as Vera Peicheva-Jürgens, is a Bulgarian and German female chess player. She earned the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1993 and won the Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship in 1990.
Biography
At the end of the 1980s she was one of the leading female chess players in Bulgaria. In 1987, in Sofia she won silver medal in the Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship. In 1989, she won bronze medal in the European Girl's Junior Championship in U20 age group and won second place in Athens International Women's Chess Tournament behind winner Svetlana Prudnikova. In 1990, she won Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship.
She played for Bulgaria in the Women's Chess Olympiad:
In 1990, at second board in the 29th Chess Olympiad (women) in Novi Sad (+4, =3, -4).
In 1991, she married and moved to Germany. Since 1992, she has been representing this country in chess tournaments. In 1993, in Dresden she ranked second in International Women's Chess tournament behind winner Margarita Voiska.
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