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Ticia Gara

Ticia Gara is a Hungarian-born chess player with the title of Woman Grandmaster, a three-time Hungarian women's champion who moved to Israel in 2025.

born 1984Hungarian women's chess championPlaying for Hungary's Olympiad teamWoman Grandmaster title

Born: 25 October 1984, Budapest
Occupation: chess player

Ticia Gara was born in 1984 in Budapest

Ticia Gara was born on October 25, 1984, in Budapest. She is Jewish and Hungarian. Her sister Anita Gara is also a chess player.

Gara has held the Woman Grandmaster title since 2002. She won the Hungarian women's championship in 2006, 2007 and 2019. In 2009 she tied for first with her sister, who took the title on tie-break.

She played for Hungary at the Women's Chess Olympiad and at European team events. In 2015 her team won gold at the Women's Mitropa Cup in Mayrhofen, where she won 6 of 6 games on board 2. She was Hungary's chess player of the year in 2020 and 2021.

In January 2024 Chess.com named her coach of the month. In 2025 she moved to Israel, joined the Chess for All club and teaches chess there.