Ela Pitam


Ela Pitam is an Israeli chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. Winner the Israeli Women Chess Championship.

Biography

In 1991 Ela Pitam left Soviet Union for Israel. She graduated from University of Haifa.

Chess career

Pitam began to study chess in Latvia. In 1990 she took part in the Open Chess Championship of Latvia. From 1992 to 1997 she participated in European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships. The best result - 3rd place in 1994 in European Girl Chess Championship U18 in Chania.
In 1998, in Dresden she shared the first place with in the Women's World Chess Championship zone tournament. Ela Pitam participated in Women's World Chess Championship knock-out tournament in 2000 in New Delhi and lost Ekaterina Kovalevskaya in the 1st round. In 2000 she won the Israeli Women's Chess Championship. In 2001 in Tel-Aviv she shared the third place in the International Women's Chess tournament.
Pitam played for Israel in the Women's Chess Olympiads:
Pitam played for Israel in the European Team Chess Championships: