Wilma Samt | |
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Born | 28 May 1926 |
Died | 15 February 2016 | (aged 89)
Children | 1 daughter |
Country | Austria |
Wilma Samt (28 May 1926 – 15 February 2016) was an Austrian chess player who three times won the Austrian Women's Chess Championship (1966, 1970, 1973).
From the mid-1960s to the begin 1980s Wilma Samt was one of the leading Austrian women's chess players. In Austrian Women's Chess Championship she won six medals: three gold (1966, 1970, 1973) and three bronze (1975, 1978, 1980).[1] In 1966, in Arenys de Mar Wilma Samt participated in FIDE Women's World Chess Championship West European Zonal Tournament.[2]
Wilma Samt played for Austria in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[3]