Teodora Injac

Teodora Injac (Serbian Cyrillic: Теодора Ињац; born 26 May 2000 in Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster in 2021 and the title of International Master in 2023.[2]

Teodora Injac
Injac at the 2017 World Youth Chess Championship
CountrySerbia
Born (2000-05-26) 26 May 2000
Belgrade,[1] Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Title
FIDE rating2426 (October 2023)
Peak rating2426 (September 2023)
Peak ranking39th woman (August 2023)

Chess career

She won the Women's Serbian Chess Championship in 2018, 2019 and 2020.[3] She was the youngest ever to win the Women's Serbian Chess Championship.

She won bronze medal at the World Youth Chess Championship held in Porto Carras, Greece in 2018.[4]

At the age of 17 she became a part of women's national team of Serbia and so far has represented Serbia in three European Teams Chess Championships (2017. in Hersonissos, Crete,[5] 2019. in Batumi, Georgia[6] and 2021. in Brezice, Slovenia.[7]

She represented Serbia in the 2018 Chess Olympiad[8] in Batumi Georgia and 2022 Chess Olympiad.[9] in Chennai, India.

She qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2021 where, seeded 63rd, she defeated Dina Belenkaya 2-0 in the first round, before being defeated by 2nd-seed Kateryna Lagno 0.5-1.5 in the second round.[10]

At the Women's Chess World Cup 2023 held in Baku, Azerbaijan, she defeated Nurai Sovetbekova 2-0[11] in the first round before defeating Sophie Milliet with the score of 1.5-0.5[12] in the second round. In the third round, she went on to defeat the Women's Chess World Cup 2021 winner and the former Women's World chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk with the score of 3-1[13] In the fourth round, she was eliminated by Polina Shuvalova with the score of 0.5-1.5.[14]

References
  1. "Sportska budućnost Srbije: Teodora Injac, šahistkinja". rts.rs (in Serbian). 17 April 2018.
  2. "Injac, Teodora". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  3. "Alexandar Indjic and Teodora Injac win Serbian championship". www.fide.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  4. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Chess Championships 2018". chess-results.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  5. "European Team Championship (2017)". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  6. "European Team Championship (2019)". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  7. "European Team Championship (2021)". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  8. "Olympiad Women 2018 2018 - 365Chess.com Tournaments". www.365chess.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  9. "Calendar". www.fide.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  10. "Tournament tree — FIDE World Cup 2021". worldcup.fide.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  11. "https://worldcup2023.fide.com/tree". worldcup2023.fide.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  12. "https://worldcup2023.fide.com/tree". worldcup2023.fide.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  13. "https://worldcup2023.fide.com/tree". worldcup2023.fide.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  14. "https://worldcup2023.fide.com/tree". worldcup2023.fide.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
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