Deborah Evans-Quek
Deborah Evans-Quek is a Welsh chess player, five-times Welsh [Chess Championship|Welsh Women's Chess Championship] winner, Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner.
Biography
From the end of 1970s to the mid-2000s Deborah Evans-Quek was one of the best chess female player in Wales. She twice participated in European Girls' Junior Chess Championships. Deborah Evans-Quek has won Welsh Women's Chess Championship five times: 1977, 1979, 1991, 2000, and 2003. In 1993, in Delden she participated in Women's World Chess Championship West European Zonal tournament.Deborah Evans-Quek played for Wales in the Chess Olympiads:
- In 1978, at second board in the 8th Chess Olympiad (women) in Buenos Aires,
- In 1980, at second board in the 9th Chess Olympiad (women) in Valletta,
- In 1982, at first board in the 10th Chess Olympiad (women) in Lucerne,
- In 1984, at second board in the 26th Chess Olympiad (women) in Thessaloniki,
- In 1986, at second board in the 27th Chess Olympiad (women) in Dubai and won individual silver medal,
- In 1988, at second board in the 28th Chess Olympiad (women) in Thessaloniki,
- In 1990, at first board in the 29th Chess Olympiad (women) in Novi Sad,
- In 1992, at second board in the 30th Chess Olympiad (women) in Manila,
- In 2000, at second board in the 34th Chess Olympiad (women) in Istanbul,
- In 2002, at first board in the 35th Chess Olympiad (women) in Bled,
- In 2004, at second board in the 36th Chess Olympiad (women) in Calvià.
- In 1992, at first board in the 1st European Team Chess Championship in Debrecen.