Gina Lynne LoSasso

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Gina Lynne LoSasso
ICCF Lady International Master (1993)
FIDE rating2085 (January 1995)
Peak rating2120 (January 1991)
ICCF rating2445 (July 1997)
ICCF peak rating2474 (July 1992)

Gina Lynne LoSasso

ICCF title
of Lady International Master (LIM, 1993).

Biography

In the second half of the 1980s, playing as Gina Linn, Gina Lynne LoSasso was one of the leading American female chess players having participated in two US Women's Championships. In 1989, she moved to Belgium to play and won the Belgian Women's Chess Championship in Ghent.[2] She then placed first in the Women’s World Championship Zonal for Northwestern Europe in Oosterwijk in 1990, and participated in Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in Azov where she placed 16th.[3]

Gina Lynne LoSasso played for the United States and Belgium in the Women's Chess Olympiads in Abu Dhabi and Novi Sad respectively.[4] In 1990, she was awarded the FIDE

Woman International Master (WIM) title for her performance playing first board at the 29th Chess Olympiad (women) in Novi Sad (+7, =3, -3). In the 1990s, she returned to the US and completed a bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Wayne State University in less than five years.[1]

She received her PhD in clinical psychology in 1999.[5]

Personal life

Gina Lynne LoSasso was born in

Hastings, England. They had a son, Spencer Finegold (born June 1991), and later divorced.[5] She later married Christopher Langan.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ a b c Sager, Mike (November 1, 1999). "The Smartest Man in America". Esquire. Archived from the original on February 25, 2020.
  2. ^ "Belgian Chess History » Belgian championship, Ghent".
  3. ^ "1990 Azov Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women)". www.mark-weeks.com.
  4. ^ "OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Gina Finegold". www.olimpbase.org.
  5. ^ a b Finegold, Ben (February 2010). "The 40-Year-Old GM". Chess Life.

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