InfoPersons, originating from Poland
Monika Soćko
Born: March 24, 1978 in WarsawBorn as Bobrowska. She is married to the Polish GM Bartosz Soćko.
She won the Polish women's chess championship six times (in 1995, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2014). She achieved the title of grandmaster in 2008, the first Polish woman player to do so. In 2007, Soćko won an international women's tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan ahead of women's World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova. She won the 2009 Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø, in spite of being only ranked as number 16 before the tournament, while her top-ranked husband finished in 13th place. In March 2010 she won the bronze medal at the European Chess Championship for Woman after defeating Yelena Dembo and Marie Sebag in the tie-breaks. In 2011 she was a member of the Polish women team at the European Team Chess Championship; they won the silver medal.
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Monika Soćko in 2014
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