Helen Milligan

Helen Milligan (born Helen Scott; 25 August 1962) is a Scottish-New Zealand chess player holding the FIDE titles of Candidate Master (CM) and Woman FIDE Master (WFM), and three-time Asian senior women's champion.

Helen Milligan
Helen Milligan at the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia 2010.
Country	Scotland (until 2007) New Zealand (since 2007)
Born	(1962-08-25) 25 August 1962 (age 62) Glasgow, Scotland
Title	Candidate Master (2013) Woman FIDE Master
Peak rating	2138 (July 1999)[1]

In 2004 Milligan co-authored the book "Chess for Children" with Grandmaster Murray Chandler.^[2] She currently works as a chess coach, and runs chess events for her club, North Shore Chess Club.^{[citation needed]} She also holds the FIDE titles of International Arbiter (IA) and FIDE Trainer (FT).

Biography

Helen Milligan gained a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews in 1989; her thesis was on the pulsation of Delta Scuti stars.^[3]

Milligan has won or jointly won the Scottish women's championship three times: in 1982, 1986 and 1988.^[4] In 1983 she was joint British ladies' champion with Rani Hamid.^[5]

Milligan represented Scotland in eleven Women's Chess Olympiads between 1982 and 2006. Since 2008 she has played for New Zealand in this competition,^[6] having transferred national federations in 2007.^[7]

Milligan became Oceania women's champion at the Queenstown Chess Classic tournament in January 2012.^[8] She also competed in Women's Zonal Chess Championships in Bath 1987, Blackpool 1990, Delden 1993, Saint Vincent 1999, and Gold Coast 2009.^{[citation needed]}

She won the Asian senior women's champion title in 2015 in Larestan, Iran,^[9] 2016 in Mandalay, Myanmar^[10] and 2017 in Auckland.^[11]

Notable games

• Diane Savereide vs Helen Milligan, Thessaloniki Olympiad (women) 1988, Russian Game: Classical, (C42), 0-1
• Helen Milligan vs Dana Reizniece, European Team Ch (women) 2001, Sicilian Defence: Old Sicilian, (B32), 1-0
• Subbaraman Meenakshi vs Helen Milligan, Gibraltar Masters 2004, Queen's Indian Defence, (E12), 0-1
• Helen Milligan vs Anthony Ker, Queenstown Classic 2012, Pirc Defense: Classical Variation, (B08), 1-0