Country New Zealand | Role Chess master Name Helen Milligan Books Chess for Children | |
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Born 25 August 1962 (age 62)
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.