Harriet Hunt
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Harriet Hunt, Warsaw 2006
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| Full name | Harriet Vaughan Hunt |
| Country | England |
| Born |
4 February 1978 Oxford, England |
| Title | International Master, WGM |
| FIDE rating |
2440 (May 2017) (No. 40 ranked woman in the November 2012 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2463 (January 2009) |
Harriet Vaughan Hunt (born 4 February 1978, Oxford) is an English chess player and four times British Ladies' champion. She is a researcher in archaeogenetics at the University of Cambridge.
A high-profile player from an early age, Hunt won five British Junior Girls titles between 1989 and 1991. Even more significant was her (1991) share of the British Junior Under-14 title, when she became the first girl to compete victoriously in the Boys/Open section of the national championships.
At 16, she made her debut for the English Ladies Olympiad Team. Her result at the event included a draw with future Ladies World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova.
Her performances at the World Youth Chess Championships included a bronze at Under-14 level (Duisburg, 1992) and silver from the Cala Galdana Under-18 event of 1996.
Between 1995 and 1999 she was British Ladies Champion four times.
Then in 1997, she won the World Girls' (Under-20) Championship in Żagań, at the end of a "year out" between school and her Plant Science studies at Cambridge University. In Pula the same year and by then a Woman International Master, she scored 5/7 on board 2 at the European Team Chess Championship and this contributed to the English Ladies Team's third-place finish and a team bronze medal. 1997 was also the year that Hunt was invited by chess organiser Johan Zwanepol to compete at the Groningen Open Grandmaster tournament. Zwanepol had been an arbiter at her Zagan victory and was keen to see further progress. Her result of 6/11 was probably as good as could be expected in such a strong competition (the entry included over 30 grandmasters headed by Mikhail Gurevich, Jaan Ehlvest, Tony Miles, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Suat Atalık, Sergei Tiviakov etc.).
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