Zirka Frometa
Zirka Frometa, is a Cuban Woman International Grandmaster. She is a three-times winner the Cuban Women's Chess Championship.Biography
From the early 1980s to the mid 2000s, Zirka Frometa is one of the leading chess players in the Cuba. Three times she won the Cuban Women's Chess Championships: 1981, 1983, 1987. In 2008 in San Salvador she won Pan American Women's Championship.
Zirka Frometa two times participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments:
Zirka Frometa played for Cuba in the Women's Chess Olympiads:
- In 1984, at third board in the 26th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki,
- In 1986, at third board in the 27th Chess Olympiad in Dubai and won individual bronze medal,
- In 1988, at second board in the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki,
- In 1990, at first reserve board in the 29th Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad,
- In 1994, at third board in the 31st Chess Olympiad in Moscow,
- In 2002, at third board in the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled.
In 1979, she was awarded the FIDE International Women Master title and received the FIDE International Women Grandmaster in 2008.
