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Dina Belenkaya

Dina Belenkaya is a chess player, commentator and streamer who holds the Woman Grandmaster title and has won the St. Petersburg women's championship 4 times.

born 1993Woman Grandmaster title4 St. Petersburg women's titlesChess streaming and commentary

Born: 22 December 1993, Saint Petersburg
Occupation: chess player
Education: Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University

Dina Belenkaya was born in 1993 in Saint Petersburg

Belenkaya was born on 22 December 1993 in St. Petersburg. Her mother, Asya Kovalyova, is a children's chess coach and taught her the game at age 3. She began competing at age 5 and later trained with FIDE Master Andrey Praslov.

She received her first FIDE rating in 2007 and won the Russian Women's Championship First League in 2011. She earned norms at open tournaments in France from 2014, and became a Woman Grandmaster in 2016. She has also earned all 3 International Master norms.

She won the St. Petersburg women's championship in 2015, 2018, 2020 and 2021. In 2017 the FIDE Ethics Commission reprimanded her over a cheating accusation against Mihaela Sandu. She reached a peak rating of 2364 in 2019 and played in the 2021 Women's World Cup.

In 2020 she and her sister Asya launched Twitch and YouTube channels. She also works as a commentator for chess events. She moved from the Russian federation to Israel in 2022 and to France in 2026.