Kateryna Dolzhykova | |
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![]() Kateryna Dolzhykova, 2015 | |
Country | Ukraine (until 2023) Germany (since 2023) |
Born | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | September 25, 1988
Title | Woman International Master (2005) |
Peak rating | 2351 (October 2008) |
Kateryna Oleksandrivna Dolzhykova (Ukrainian: Катери́на Олекса́ндрівна До́лжикова; born September 25, 1988, in Kyiv) is a German-Ukrainian chess player holding the title Woman International Master (WIM).[1]
She won the Ukrainian women's championship in 2011.[2][3] Dolzhykova played on the silver medal–winning Ukrainian team in the women's team event of rapid chess at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games.[4]
On July 24, 2009, she married chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.[5][6][7] The marriage later broke up.[8] Her sister Olga Dolzhykova is also a chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).[9][10]