Jana Bellin

{{Short description|English chess player (born 1947)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox chess biography |image = Jana Miles Bellin 1982 Luzern.jpg |caption = Jana Miles (Bellin), Olympiad Luzern 1982 |country = England |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|12|9|df=yes}} |birth_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = {{marriage|William Hartston|1970|end=div}}<br>{{marriage|Tony Miles|end=div}}<br>Robert Bellin |title = Woman Grandmaster (1983) |peakrating = 2340 (January 1987) }} '''Jana Bellin''' (''née'' '''Malypetrová'''; born 9 December 1947) is a British, formerly Czechoslovak chess player. She was awarded the Woman International Master chess title in 1969 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1982.<ref name="Gaige">{{citation | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography | publisher=McFarland | isbn=0-7864-2353-6 | page=265}}</ref>

Bellin was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was the Czech Women's Champion in 1965 and 1967 under her maiden name of Malypetrová.<ref name="Golombek">{{citation | editor-last=Golombek | editor-first=Harry | editor-link=Harry Golombek | year=1977 | title=Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess | publisher=Crown Publishing | isbn=0-517-53146-1 | contribution=Hartston, Dr Jana | pages=136–137}}</ref> After her marriage to William Hartston she moved to England in 1970<ref name="Golombek" /> and won the British Women's Championship in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977 (after a play-off), and 1979.<ref name="Guinness">{{citation | last=Whyld | first=Ken | author-link=Ken Whyld | year=1986 | title=Chess: The Records | publisher=Guinness Books | isbn=0-85112-455-0 | page=154}}</ref> She has fifteen appearances in the Women's Chess Olympiads, representing Czechoslovakia in 1966 and 1969 and England thirteen times from 1972 through 2006, seven times on first board.<ref name="olimpbase" /> At the Olympiad she earned individual silver medals in 1966 and 1976, a team bronze medal in 1968 with the Czechoslovak team, and a team silver in 1976 with England.<ref name="olimpbase">[http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/82m20qsc.html OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiads Jana Bellin]</ref>

Bellin is a medical doctor specialising in anaesthetics, and works in intensive care at Sandwell General Hospital, West Bromwich, England.<ref>[http://www.swbh.nhs.uk/gps/dr-j-bellin/ Dr J Bellin | Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826195315/http://www.swbh.nhs.uk/gps/dr-j-bellin/ |date=26 August 2016 }}, retrieved 10 August 2014</ref>

She is also Chairman of the FIDE Medical Commission,<ref>[http://www.fide.com/fide/directory.html?comid=33&task=committee FIDE Directory: Medical Commission] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308223305/http://www.fide.com/fide/directory.html?comid=33&task=committee |date=2013-03-08 }}, retrieved 5 March 2013.</ref> which supervises drug testing of chess players.<ref>[http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=51&view=article FIDE Handbook: Chapter 14, Doping and Drug Use], retrieved 5 March 2013</ref>

Bellin was married first to International Master William Hartston, then to Grandmaster Tony Miles,<ref name="Gaige" /><ref name="Guinness" /> and after that to International Master Robert Bellin. She and Bellin have two sons: Robert (born 1989) and Christopher (born 1991).{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}

She is the granddaughter of thrice-Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia Jan Malypetr{{citation needed|date=March 2013}} and cousin of author and human rights campaigner Jiří Stránský.

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==External links== * {{Commonscat-inline}} *{{Fide|name=Jana M Bellin}} *{{chessgames player|id=48298|name=Dr. Jana Malypetrova Hartston Miles Bellin}}

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