Elina Danielian
Elina Danielian is an Armenian chess grandmaster and six-time Armenian women's champion. She has represented Armenia twelve times in the Women's Chess Olympiads. She played in the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the 5th Women's European Team Chess Championship in Plovdiv 2003.
Danielian won the World Under-14 Girls Championship in Duisburg 1992 and the World Under-16 Girls Championship in Bratislava 1993. In 2001, she won the European Women's Rapid Chess Championship in Minsk.
In March 2011, she was tied for first place in the Doha stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011.
Danielian won the bronze medal in the 2011 European Women's Championship in Tbilisi, scoring 8/11 points.
In May 2019, Elina narrowly defeated grandmaster Kateryna Lagno in round 1 of the Women's Speed Chess Championship hosted by Chess.com. The match was a combination blitz & bullet format with the first set being 5 minutes with a 1-second increment, the second set being 3+1, and the final set being 1+1. The match was decided by the final bullet game as the score was tied leading up to the finale.
