Helen Milligan | |
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Country | Scotland (until 2007) New Zealand (since 2007) |
Born | Glasgow, Scotland | 25 August 1962
Title | Candidate Master (2013) Woman FIDE Master |
Peak rating | 2138 (July 1999)[1] |
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.
In 2004 Milligan co-authored the book "Chess for Children" with Grandmaster Murray Chandler.[2] She currently works as a chess coach, and runs chess events for her club, North Shore Chess Club.[citation needed] She also holds the FIDE titles of International Arbiter (IA) and FIDE Trainer (FT).
Helen Milligan gained a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Saint Andrews in 1989; her thesis was on the pulsation of Delta Scuti stars.[3]
Milligan has won or jointly won the Scottish women's championship three times: in 1982, 1986 and 1988.[4] In 1983 she was joint British ladies' champion with Rani Hamid.[5]
Milligan represented Scotland in eleven Women's Chess Olympiads between 1982 and 2006. Since 2008 she has played for New Zealand in this competition,[6] having transferred national federations in 2007.[7]
Milligan became Oceania women's champion at the Queenstown Chess Classic tournament in January 2012.[8] She also competed in Women's Zonal Chess Championships in Bath 1987, Blackpool 1990, Delden 1993, Saint Vincent 1999, and Gold Coast 2009.[citation needed]
She won the Asian senior women's champion title in 2015 in Larestan, Iran,[9] 2016 in Mandalay, Myanmar[10] and 2017 in Auckland.[11]