{{Short description|Latvian chess player (born 1962)}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Olita Rause | image = | caption = | full_name = <!-- if different --> | country = Soviet Union<br />Latvia | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|11|21}} | birth_place = Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | title = {{unbulleted list|class=nowrap | FIDE Woman Grandmaster (1993) | FIDE International Master (1995) | ICCF Grandmaster (1998) }} | rating = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/11600250/chart 2192] (June 2019) | peakrating = [https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Rause,%20Olita.html 2360] (July 1994) | ICCF_rating = [https://www.iccf.com/player?id=910070&tab=3 2684] (October 2005) | ICCF_peakrating = 2721 (October 2002) }}
'''Olita Rause''' (born November 21, 1962) is a Latvian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1993) and International Master (IM, 1995). She also holds the ICCF title of Correspondence Grandmaster (GM, 1998).
==Chess career== Rause won the silver medal in Latvian Chess Championship for women three times: 1981 (tournament won by Astra Goldmane), 1984 (tournament won by Anda Šafranska), 1994 (after she lost additional match against Anda Šafranska - 1½:2½). In 1986, Rause played for Latvia in Soviet Women's Team Chess Championship in Minsk at second board.<ref>{{cite web |author=Wojciech Bartelski |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playerssw/dj17xjlc.html |title=Soviet Women's Team Chess Championship :: Olita Rause |publisher=OlimpBase |date= |accessdate=2011-12-24}}</ref>
Rause played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads:<ref>{{cite web |author=Wojciech Bartelski |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/dj17xjlc.html |title=Women's Chess Olympiads :: Olita Rause |publisher=OlimpBase |date= |accessdate=2011-12-24}}</ref> * In 1994, at second board in the 31st Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+4, -4, =3). Rause is one of strongest world's correspondence chess players. She won the ICCF World Cup VI tournament.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tables.iccf.com/world/cup/wcup-06.htm |title=Wcup-06 Final |publisher=Tables.iccf.com |date= |accessdate=2011-12-24}}</ref>
==Personal life== Rause graduated from the University of Latvia with a Master of Philology degree. From December 2001 to February 2017 she worked as the editor in chief for Janis Roze Publishers in Riga. Rause was married to Igors Rausis.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{FIDE}} * {{ICCF}} * {{Chessgames.com player}} * {{365Chess.com player}} * {{ChessTempo.com player}} * [http://www.lksf.lv/Mape/galerija/rause.htm Olita Rause] player profile at Latvian Correspondence Chess Federation
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rause, Olita}} Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:Latvian female chess players Category:Latvian chess players Category:Soviet female chess players Category:Soviet chess players Category:Chess players from Riga Category:University of Latvia alumni Category:Chess Woman Grandmasters Category:Chess International Masters