Elvira Berend


Elvira Berend, née Sakhatova, is a Kazakhstan born Luxembourg Woman Grandmaster . She is a three-time Luxembourg Chess Championship winner and two-time World Senior Chess Championship winner.

Biography

Chess master Gulnar Sachs younger sister. In 1988, she took part in the USSR Women's Chess Championship final and ranked 12th place. She twice represented the Kazakh SSR team in the Soviet Team Chess Championships, in which she won team silver medal in 1991.
After dissolution of the Soviet Union in chess tournaments she represented Kazakhstan. In 1995, Elvira Berend participated in Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in Chişinău where ranked 14th place. In 1997, in Athens she wins European Women's Fast Chess Championship, as well as winning the international chess tournament in Luxembourg City.
In the second half of the 1990s, she married the Luxembourg International Master Fred Berend, and since 1997 she has been representing Luxembourg in the chess tournaments.
Elvira Berend played for Kazakhstan and Luxembourg:
In 1995, she was awarded the FIDE Women Grandmaster title. This makes her the first female chess player in Kazakhstan who has become a grandmaster.