Elina Danielian

Elina Danielian (Armenian: Էլինա Դանիելյան; born 16 August 1978 in Baku)[1] is an Armenian chess grandmaster and six-time Armenian women's champion (1993, 1994. 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004).[2] She has represented Armenia twelve times in the Women's Chess Olympiads (1992–2014).[3] She played in the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the 5th Women's European Team Chess Championship in Plovdiv 2003.[4]

Elina Danielian Էլինա Դանիելյան
GM Elina Danielian, European Chess Team Championship Warsaw 2013
Country	Armenia
Born	(1978-08-16) 16 August 1978 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2407 (February 2021)
Peak rating	2521 (July 2011)

Danielian won the World Under-14 Girls Championship in Duisburg 1992 and the World Under-16 Girls Championship in Bratislava 1993. In 2001, she won the European Women's Rapid Chess Championship in Minsk.[5]

In March 2011, she was tied for first place in the Doha stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011.[6][7] Danielian won the bronze medal in the 2011 European Women's Championship in Tbilisi, scoring 8/11 points.[8]

In May 2019, Elina narrowly defeated[9] grandmaster Kateryna Lagno (the reigning women's world blitz champion[10]) in round 1 of the Women's Speed Chess Championship hosted by Chess.com.[11] The match[12] was a combination blitz & bullet format with the first set being 5 minutes with a 1-second increment (5+1), the second set being 3+1, and the final set being 1+1. The match was decided by the final bullet game as the score was tied leading up to the finale.