Background
Starr was born in Latvia and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Starr was born in Latvia and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
She has represented Canada 12 times in chess Olympiads, and six times in World Championships. Represented Canada at 12 Chess Olympiads, 10 times on first board Buenos Aires 1978, 1st board, 10/14, +8 =4 −2. Lucerne 1982, 1st board, 7.5/11, +5 =5 −1.
Thessaloniki 1984, 1st board, 8/12, +7 =2 −3.
Thessaloniki 1988, 1st board, 5/12, +4 =2 −6. Manila 1992, 1st board, 9/13, +7 =4 −2.
Moscow 1994, Russia, 8.5/12, +6 =5 −1. Yerevan 1996, 1st board, 6/12, +3 =6 −3.
Bled 2002 1st board, 5.5/11, +5 =1 −5.
Calvià 2004, 1st board, 8.5/12, +7 =3 −2. Turin 2006, 2nd board, 5.5/10, +4 =3 −3. Totals in Olympiad play for Canada: 141 games (all-time Canadian women"s record), +71 =41 −29, for 64.9 per central
6-times participant in the individual Women"s World Championships: 1978 – Alicante, Spain 1982 – Bad Kissingen, Germany 1985 – Havana, Cuba 1990 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1993 – Jakarta, Indonesia 2001 – Moscow Dinara Khaziyeva vs Nava Starr, Canadian Championship, Toronto 2004, King"s Indian Attack / Zukertort Opening (A04), 0-1 Khaziyeva was a young player who has to learn the ropes from a veteran like Starr.
Nava Starr vs Angela Franco, Turin Olympiad (women) 2006, Four Knights" Game, Scotch Variation (C47), 1-0 Very nice endgame victory.
Starr was born in Latvia and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is married to Sasha Starr, and has one married daughter, Regina and two grandchildren, Mathew and Naomi. Sasha Starr is also a Master-strength player. Starr"s chess style is sharp, offensive and always looking for combinations. She favours sharp and unusual openings, such as the Grand Prix Attack (Sicilian), b3 in the French, f5 variation in the Ruy Lopez, the Philidor Defence as Black, and many others She received the WIM title by winning her first Ladies" Canadian Chess Championship in 1978 in Victoria, British Columbia. The best players she has defeated are: Pia Cramling (Sweden), Milunka Lazarević (Former Yugoslavia), Barbara Hund (Switzerland) and Roman Pelts (Canada). Starr wrote an article in En Passant magazine dealing with the reasons "Why men are superior to women in chess".
