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NameBeola
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Birth year1940
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Khan Anna (1976)

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SurnameKhan
NameAnna
Birth year1976
Birth month6
Birth day21
birth_placeRiga
SexF

Khan (Hahn) Anna (21 June 1976, Riga) — trader and chess player.

Anna Khan was born and raised in Riga and graduated from the Riga Jewish Secondary School.

From 1988 to 1992 she was a member of the youth ensemble “Kinnor” in Riga.

In 1992 she emigrated with her family to the United States.

She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, after that she lives and works in the Greater New York area.

From childhood she was passionate about chess, and at the age of fifteen won the Latvian Women’s National Chess Championship.

From the first months after arriving in the United States, she continued to pursue chess seriously: she played in chess clubs and participated in U.S. championships and international tournaments.

She became an International Master in chess in 1994.

Hahn participated in two international chess Olympiads: for the Latvian team in 1992 in the Philippines, and for the United States team in 2000 in Istanbul.

She also participated in two Women’s World Chess Championships in New Delhi in 2000 and in Elista in 2004.

She became the U.S. Women’s Chess Champion in 2003.