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Ukrainian-American chess master who won the U.S. Women's Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2012.She was the youngest U.S. Women's Champion of all time and in 2013 FIDE ranked her the best American female chess player.She and Anna Ushenina are two of the best Ukrainian born players in the chess world.
BEFORE FAMEShe learned to play chess around the same time that she immigrated to the United States.
PERSONAL LIFEHer parents immigrated from the Soviet Union to Brooklyn when she was five.
FUN FACTSChess Player Irina Krush were born on Saturday, birthstone is Turquoise, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Pig, it is 356 days until Irina Krush next birthday.
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