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Helen Milligan (chess player)

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Country
  
New Zealand

Peak rating
  
2135

FIDE rating
  
2013


Role
  
Chess master

Name
  
Helen Milligan

Books
  
Chess for Children

Helen Milligan (chess player) Helen Milligan chess player Wikipedia


Born
  
25 August 1962 (age 61) Glasgow, Scotland (
1962-08-25
)

Title
  
Woman FIDE Master (WFM)

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).

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

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

Chess career

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

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

Milligan became Oceania women's champion at the Queenstown Chess Classic tournament in January 2012. 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 women's senior champion title in 2015 in Larestan, Iran and 2016 in Mandalay, Myanmar.

Notable games

  • Diane Savereide vs Helen Milligan, Thessaloniki Olympiad (women) 1988, Russian Game: Classical, (C42), 0-1
  • Helen Milligan vs Dana Reizniece, European Team Ch (women) 2001, Sicilian Defence: Old Sicilian, (B32), 1-0
  • Subbaraman Meenakshi vs Helen Milligan, Gibraltar Masters 2004, Queen's Indian Defence, (E12), 0-1
  • Helen Milligan vs Anthony Ker, Queenstown Classic 2012, Pirc Defense: Classical Variation, (B08), 1-0
  • References

    Helen Milligan (chess player) Wikipedia