Dr Helen Milligan (née Scott)

1962 ─

New Zealand Congress, Christchurch 2022

Helen Milligan was educated at Dunino Primary School and Madras College, St Andrews, followed by the University of St Andrews, where she obtained her PhD in 1989.

She played for Madras College frequently, and also represented St Andrews in the the Tayside and Fife Chess Association League. When she lived in London she was a member of the Athenaeum CC and played for them in the 4NCL.

She showed that she had a promising future when in her teens and it wasn't long before she achieved early success with her first Scottish Women's win in 1982, followed by a share of the British Women's title in 1983.

In 2007 she moved to New Zealand and represented that country thereafter. At the time of writing (February 2022) she is President of the North Shore CC, Auckland.

Achievements

Scottish Women's Champion 1982, 1986 and 1988 (both shared).

British Women's Champion 1983 (shared).

Eleven Olympiad appearances for Scotland 1982─2006.

Six Olympiad appearances for New Zealand 2008─2018.

Five-time Asian Senior Women's Champion; 2014 in Waskaduwa, Sri Lanka; 2015 in Larestan, Iran; 2016 in Mandalay, Myanmar; 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand; 2018 in Tagaytay, Philippines. 

First place (shared) in the 2015 New Zealand Major Open.

FIDE Candidate Master (CM) and Woman FIDE Master (WFM).

International Arbiter and FIDE Instructor.

Co-authored, with GM Murray Chandler, Chess for Children (2004).

Oceania women's champion at the Queenstown Chess Classic tournament, January 2012.

Competed in the Women's Zonals in Bath 1987, Blackpool 1990, Delden 1993, Saint Vincent 1999, and Warsaw 2001. She also played in the Open Zonal in Gold Coast 2009.

Dr Milligan considers her most outstanding prize to be her 3rd-place 'Best Game' prize in the Rapid of the 1992 Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championship (Budapest) for the game Benschop-Milligan.

Source
Dr Helen Milligan

 

Alan McGowan
Archivist/Historian, Chess Scotland

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