Helen Milligan (chess player)

Helen Milligan

Helen Milligan at the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia 2010.
Country Scotland
New Zealand
Born (1962-08-25) 25 August 1962
Glasgow, Scotland
Title Candidate Master
Woman FIDE Master
Peak rating 2138 (July 1999)[1]

Helen Milligan (born Helen Scott, 25 Aug 1962 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish-New Zealand chess player holding the FIDE titles of Candidate Master (CM) and Woman FIDE Master (WFM), and three-time Oceania senior women's champion (2012, 2013, 2015).

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]

She has a doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of Saint Andrews; her thesis was on the pulsation of Delta Scuti stars.[5]

Chess career

Milligan has won or jointly won the Scottish women's championship three times: in 1982, 1986 and 1988.[6] In 1983 she was joint British ladies' champion with Rani Hamid.[7]

Milligan represented Scotland in eleven Women's Chess Olympiads between 1982 and 2006. Since 2008 she has played for New Zealand in this competition,[8] having transferred chess federations in 2007.[9]

Milligan became Oceania women's champion at the Queenstown Chess Classic tournament in January 2012.[10] She also competed in Women's Zonal Chess Championships in Bath 1987, Blackpool 1990, Delden 1993, Saint Vincent 1999, and Gold Coast 2009.

In 2015 she became Asian women's senior champion in the over 50 age category in Larestan, Iran.[11]

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. ↑ "The pulsation of Delta Scuti stars". St Andrews University Library.
  6. ↑ Scottish Women's Champions Chess Scotland
  7. ↑ British Chess Champions BritBase
  8. ↑ Women's Chess Olympiads: Helen Milligan. OlimpBase.
  9. ↑ Player transfers in 2007. FIDE.
  10. ↑ 2012 Queenstown Chess Classic. New Zealand Chess.
  11. ↑ Winners of Asian Seniors Chess Championships 2015. FIDE. 2015-10-26. Retrieved 19 February 2016.

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