Diane Savereide

Diane Savereide is an American chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master in 1978 and is a five-time winner of the U.S. [Women's Chess Championship].

Biography

From the 1970s to the 1980s, Savereide was one of the leading chess players in the United States. She is the second American woman to achieve the National Master title, Gisela Kahn Gresser being the first. Savereide won the Marshall [Chess Club] Women's Invitational in 1976 and 1977. She won the United States Women's Chess Championships five times, in 1975, 1976, 1978, 1981 and 1984. In 1978, Savereide was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master title.
Savereide played for United States in the Women's Chess Olympiads: six times:

In 1976, on first board in the 7th Chess Olympiad (women) in Haifa,
In 1978, on first board in the 8th Chess Olympiad (women) in Buenos Aires,
In 1980, on first board in the 9th Chess Olympiad (women) in Valletta,
In 1982, on first board in the 10th Chess Olympiad (women) in Lucerne,
In 1984, on first board in the 26th Chess Olympiad (women) in Thessaloniki,
In 1988, on second board in the 28th Chess Olympiad (women) in Thessaloniki.

Savereide participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments four times:

In 1976, at the Women's [World Chess Championship 1978|Interzonal Tournament] in Tbilisi, finishing in 10th place;
In 1979, at the Women's [World Chess Championship 1981|Interzonal Tournament] in Alicante, finishing in 5th place;
In 1982, at the Women's World [Chess Championship 1984|Interzonal Tournament] in Tbilisi, finishing in shared 13th-14th place;
In 1985, at the Interzonal Tournament in Havana, finishing in 10th place.

She married New Zealand chess player Philip Alan Clemance, but they later divorced. From 1989 Savereide gave up chess and worked as a computer programmer with NASA and then as a software developer in Los Angeles. Savereide was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2010.