Helen Milligan

Helen Milligan (born Helen Scott; 25 August 1962) is a Scottish-New Zealand chess player holding the FIDE titles of Candidate Master (CM) and Woman FIDE Master (WFM), and three-time Asian senior women's champion.

Helen Milligan
Helen Milligan at the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia 2010.
CountryScotland
New Zealand
Born (1962-08-25) 25 August 1962
Glasgow, Scotland
TitleCandidate Master
Woman FIDE Master
Peak rating2138 (July 1999)[1]

In 2004 Milligan co-authored the book "Chess for Children" with Grandmaster Murray Chandler.[2] She is an officer of the New Zealand Chess Federation,[3] and works as a coach at Murray Chandler's National Chess Centre in Auckland.[4]

Chess career

Milligan has won or jointly won the Scottish women's championship three times: in 1982, 1986 and 1988.[5] In 1983 she was joint British ladies' champion with Rani Hamid.[6]

Milligan represented Scotland in eleven Women's Chess Olympiads between 1982 and 2006. Since 2008 she has played for New Zealand in this competition,[7] having transferred national federations in 2007.[8]

Milligan became Oceania women's champion at the Queenstown Chess Classic tournament in January 2012.[9] She also competed in Women's Zonal Chess Championships in Bath 1987, Blackpool 1990, Delden 1993, Saint Vincent 1999, and Gold Coast 2009.

She won the Asian senior women's champion title in 2015 in Larestan, Iran,[10] 2016 in Mandalay, Myanmar[11] and 2017 in Auckland.[12]

Personal life

She has a doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of Saint Andrews; her thesis was on the pulsation of Delta Scuti stars.[13]

Notable games

References
  1. Helen Milligan FIDE rating history, 1983-2001 at OlimpBase.org
  2. Chandler, Murray; Milligan, Helen (2004). Chess for Children. Gambit Publications. ISBN 978-1904600060.
  3. New Zealand Chess Federation official web page
  4. National Chess Centre - Private Coaching
  5. Scottish Women's Champions. Chess Scotland.
  6. British Chess Champions. BritBase.
  7. Helen Milligan team chess record at Olimpbase.org
  8. Player transfers in 2007. FIDE.
  9. 2012 Queenstown Chess Classic Archived 4 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine. New Zealand Chess.
  10. "Mahmood & Khan Wins 6th Asian Seniors Chess Championship in Larestan,Iran". Asian Chess Federation. 2015-10-04.
  11. Priyadarshan Banjan (2015-12-09). "Wazeer Ahmad Khan is Asian 65+ Champion". ChessBase India.
  12. "GM Eugene Torre, IM Mahmood Lodhi Win Asian Seniors". FIDE. 18 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  13. "The pulsation of Delta Scuti stars". St Andrews University Library.
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