Olita Rause


Olita Rause is a Latvian Woman Grandmaster, International Master, and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.

Chess career

Rause won the silver medal in Latvian Chess Championship for women three times: 1981, 1984, 1994. In 1986, Rause played for Latvia in Soviet Women's Team Chess Championship in Minsk at second board.
Rause played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads:
Rause is one of strongest world's correspondence chess players. She won the ICCF World Cup VI tournament.

Personal life

Rause graduated from the University of Latvia with a Master of Philology degree. From December 2001 to February 2017 she worked as the editor in chief for Janis Roze Publishers in Riga. Rause was married with chess Grandmaster Igors Rausis.