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Helen Milligan

Helen Milligan

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Helen Milligan (born Helen Scott; 25 August 1962) is a Scottish-New Zealand chess player holding the FIDE titles of Candidate Master (CM) and Woman FIDE Master (WFM), and three-time Asian senior women's champion.

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In 2004 Milligan co-authored the book "Chess for Children" with Grandmaster Murray Chandler.[2] She currently works as a chess coach, and runs chess events for her club, North Shore Chess Club.[citation needed] She also holds the FIDE titles of International Arbiter (IA) and FIDE Trainer (FT).

Biography

Helen Milligan gained a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Saint Andrews in 1989; her thesis was on the pulsation of Delta Scuti stars.[3]

Milligan has won or jointly won the Scottish women's championship three times: in 1982, 1986 and 1988.[4] In 1983 she was joint British ladies' champion with Rani Hamid.[5]

Milligan represented Scotland in eleven Women's Chess Olympiads between 1982 and 2006. Since 2008 she has played for New Zealand in this competition,[6] having transferred national federations in 2007.[7]

Milligan became Oceania women's champion at the Queenstown Chess Classic tournament in January 2012.[8] She also competed in Women's Zonal Chess Championships in Bath 1987, Blackpool 1990, Delden 1993, Saint Vincent 1999, and Gold Coast 2009.[citation needed]

She won the Asian senior women's champion title in 2015 in Larestan, Iran,[9] 2016 in Mandalay, Myanmar[10] and 2017 in Auckland.[11]

Notable games

References

  1. [1]
    Helen Milligan FIDE rating history, 1983-2001 at OlimpBase.org
  2. [2]
    Chandler, Murray; Milligan, Helen (2004). Chess for Children. Gambit Publications. ISBN 978-1904600060.
  3. [3]
    "The pulsation of Delta Scuti stars". St Andrews University Library.
  4. [4]
    Scottish Women's Champions. Chess Scotland.
  5. [5]
    British Chess Champions. BritBase.
  6. [6]
    Helen Milligan team chess record at Olimpbase.org
  7. [7]
    Player transfers in 2007. FIDE.
  8. [8]
    2012 Queenstown Chess Classic Archived 4 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine. New Zealand Chess.
  9. [9]
    "Mahmood & Khan Wins 6th Asian Seniors Chess Championship in Larestan,Iran". Asian Chess Federation. 2015-10-04.
  10. [10]
    Priyadarshan Banjan (2015-12-09). "Wazeer Ahmad Khan is Asian 65+ Champion". ChessBase India.
  11. [11]
    "GM Eugene Torre, IM Mahmood Lodhi Win Asian Seniors". FIDE. 18 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
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