Irina Krush

Infobox chess player
playername = Irina Krush


caption = Irina Krush at the 2003 U.S. Chess Championships in Seattle, Washington
birthname = Irina Krush
country = USA
datebirth = birth date and age|1983|12|24
placebirth = Odessa, Ukraine
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = IM, WGM
worldchampion =
rating = 2470 (July 2008)
peakrating = 2479 (July 2007)

Irina Krush (b. December 24, 1983) is an American chess player and won U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998 and 2007. [http://main.uschess.org/content/view/7902/329/ "Krush Wins Her Second Championship"] ] Born in Odessa, USSR (now Ukraine), she is widely known for her series of chess training videos, the "Krushing Attacks" series.

Krush learned to play chess at age five, emigrating with her parents to Brooklyn that same year (1989).

At age 14 Krush won the 1998 US Women's Chess Championship to become the youngest U.S. Women's Champion ever. She holds the title of International Master (IM) and has one of three tournament results (norms) necessary to qualify for the International Grandmaster (GM) title. On the July 2008 list, Krush has a FIDE rating of 2470, 24th best among active female players [ [http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=women FIDE: Top 100 Women, July 2008] ] .

Krush gained a measure of fame both inside and outside chess circles during the well-publicized "Kasparov versus The World" chess competition in 1999. Garry Kasparov played the white pieces and the Internet public, via a Microsoft host website, voted on moves for the black pieces, guided by the recommendations of Krush and three of her contemporaries, Etienne Bacrot, Elisabeth Pähtz and Florin Felecan. On the tenth move, Krush suggested a novelty, for which the World Team voted. Kasparov said later that he lost control of the game at that point, and wasn't sure whether he was winning or losing. Fact|date=June 2007

Krush currently plays for the New York Knights in the U.S. Chess League, and both she and her husband Canadian Grandmaster Pascal Charbonneau have played in the United Kingdom league for Guildford-ADC. In 2006 they were students in Paris.

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External links

*fide|id=2012782|name=Irina Krush
* [http://www.uschessleague.com/IrinaKrush.html Profile] from uschessleague.com
* [http://www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/statistics_pgn_rating_chart.asp?username=Krush,Irina Statistics at ChessWorld.net]
*cite web | url=http://main.uschess.org/content/view/6626/358/ | title=Interview with Irina Krush | first=Betsy | last=Dynako | publisher=Chess Life Online | date=31 July 2007