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{{Short description|Latvian-Canadian chess player}}
{{Infobox chess biography
| image = Nava Shterenberg 1982.jpg
| caption = Starr at [[Interzonal]] tournament in Bad Kissingen, 1982
| full_name = <!-- if different -->
| country = [[Canada]]
| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|April 4, 1949}}
| birth_place = [[Riga]], [[Latvia]]
| title = [[Woman International Master]]
| rating = 2127 (September 2015)
| peakrating = 2220 (January 1990)
}}

'''Nava Starr''' (née '''Shterenberg'''; born April 4, 1949) is a [[Latvia]]-born Canadian [[chess]] player. She holds the title of [[Woman International Master]] (WIM). Starr is an eight-time Canadian ladies' champion and has represented Canada 13 times in the [[Women's Chess Olympiad]]. She competed six times in the [[Women's World Chess Championship]].

== Biography, chess achievements and style ==
Starr was born Nava Shterenberg in [[Riga]], [[Latvia]]. She is Jewish. She has lived in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada since the mid-1970s. She is married to Sasha Starr; they have a daughter, and two grandchildren. Sasha Starr is also a Master-strength chess player.

Starr's chess style is sharp, offensive and always looking for combinations. She favours sharp and unusual openings, such as the Grand Prix Attack ([[Sicilian Defence|Sicilian]]), b2-b3 against the [[French Defence|French]], ...f7-f5 variations in the [[Ruy Lopez]], and the [[Philidor Defence]]. She received the WIM title by winning her first Ladies' [[Canadian Chess Championship]] in 1978 in [[Victoria, British Columbia]]. The best players she has defeated are [[Pia Cramling]], [[Milunka Lazarević]], [[Barbara Hund]], and [[Roman Pelts]]. Starr wrote an article in ''[[En Passant magazine]]'' titled "Why men are superior to women in chess". She is a member of the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame.

== Major tournament and match results ==
*Represented Canada at 13 Women's Chess Olympiads, 10 times on first board:
**[[Haifa]] 1976, 2nd board, 9/10, +8 =2 −0, won the board gold medal;
**[[23rd Chess Olympiad|Buenos Aires 1978]], 1st board, 10/14, +8 =4 −2;
**[[24th Chess Olympiad|La Valletta 1980]], 1st board, 7.5/11, +5 =5 −1;
**[[25th Chess Olympiad|Lucerne 1982]], 1st board, 9/12, +7 =4 −1, won the board bronze medal;
**[[26th Chess Olympiad|Thessaloniki 1984]], 1st board, 8/12, +7 =2 −3;
**[[28th Chess Olympiad|Thessaloniki 1988]], 1st board, 5/12, +4 =2 −6;
**[[30th Chess Olympiad|Manila 1992]], 1st board, 9/13, +7 =4 −2;
**[[31st Chess Olympiad|Moscow 1994]], 1st board, 8.5/12, +6 =5 −1;
**[[32nd Chess Olympiad|Yerevan 1996]], 1st board, 6/12, +3 =6 −3;
**[[35th Chess Olympiad|Bled 2002]] 1st board, 5.5/11, +5 =1 −5;
**[[36th Chess Olympiad|Calvià 2004]], 1st board, 8.5/12, +7 =3 −2;
**[[37th Chess Olympiad|Turin 2006]], 2nd board, 5.5/10, +4 =3 −3;
**[[41st Chess Olympiad|Tromso 2014]], reserve board, 2.5/6, +2 =1 -3.

Totals in Olympiad play for Canada: 147 games (all-time Canadian record, for women and men), +73 =42 −29, for 63.9 per cent.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/ieaum2qb.html |title=Women's Chess Olympiads: Nava Starr |last=Bartelski |first=Wojciech |website=OlimpBase.org |access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref>

*6-time participant in the Women's World Championships:
**1978 – [[Alicante]], Spain
**1982 – [[Bad Kissingen]], Germany
**1985 – [[Havana]], [[Cuba]]
**1990 – [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]]
**1993 – [[Jakarta]], [[Indonesia]]
**[[Women's World Chess Championship 2001|2001 – Moscow]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{FIDE}}
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061014075917/http://www.chess.ca/ratings.htm |title=Rating cards, Chess Federation of Canada}}
* {{365Chess.com player|Nava_Starr}}
* {{Chessgames player|64062|Nava Starr}}
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070517083223/http://web.ncf.ca/bw998/canchess.html#STARR |title=Canadian Chess Hall of Fame Inductee 2001: Nava (Shterenberg) Starr}}
* {{OlimpBase FIDE ratings|Shterenberg,%20Nava|Nava (Shterenberg) Starr}}
* {{CFC|105860|Nava Starr}}

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