Svitlana Demchenko

Svitlana Demchenko is a Ukrainian-Canadian chess player. Svitlana Demchenko achieved the title of Woman FIDE Master in 2016 and the title of Woman International Master in 2019. Svitlana Demchenko is the 2023 Canadian Women's Closed Champion.

Biography

She was a five-time Canadian Girls Champion and a two-time North American Girls Champion in different age categories. Demchenko has been a member of the Canadian Women's Olympiad Team since 2018, and has represented Canada at the Women's World Cup.
She played on the Canadian Women's Chess Olympiad team:

She competed in the 2021 Women's Chess World Cup, where she pushed 35th seed Karina Cyfka to tiebreaks in the first round despite being rated more than 300 points lower, losing in the second set of rapid tiebreaks.
Launching in 2021, "Svitlana’s Smart Moves" is an educational show on ChessBase, hosted by Svitlana Demchenko and Arne Kaehler. Svitlana has also authored several training courses for ChessBase on openings and strategy.
She is an active chess streamer on Twitch under the name "SvetaStream".