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Anjelina Belakovskaia ((ロシア語:Анжелина Белаковская); ''Anzhelina Belakovskaya''; born May 17, 1969) is a United States chess player who has achieved the FIDE Woman Grandmaster title. She is a three-time U.S. Women's Chess Champion, with victories in 1995, 1996, and 1999. ==Biography== Belakovskaia grew up in Odessa, Ukraine, and is a graduate of the Odessa Agricultural University. She came to the United States to play competitive chess. She recalls flying from Moscow to New York City and arriving with little money and knowing only a few English words.〔 Belakovskaia's first job in the United States was slicing watermelons and winning money from the chess hustlers at Washington Square Park.〔 She won $35 the first day, but soon the hustlers would no longer play her because they had lost too much money.〔 Belakovskaia had a brief cameo in the movie ''Searching for Bobby Fischer'' in 1993. Belakovskaia became a naturalized U.S. citizen on November 24, 1999. Later that year, began graduate work at New York University in 1999, and in 2001 earned a Master's Degree in Mathematics in Finance. Soon thereafter, she got a position as a weather derivatives trader at Williams Cos. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In May 2001, Belakovskaia became the head of the Weather Derivatives desk at Williams EM&T (Energy, Marketing and Trading). There, she was recognized as “Best Female Employee” for her contribution to Company’s success. Since January 2011, Belakovskaia has taught finance classes at the Eller College of Management at The University of Arizona.〔 In 2012, she became a member of the American Meteorological Society Committee on Financial Weather/Climate Risk Management. In 2013, she became an Honors Professor, adding "Chess, Leadership and Business Strategy" course at UA Honors College to her course load. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anjelina Belakovskaia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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