Full name | Lara Stock |
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Country | Germany, Croatia |
Born | May 26, 1992 Freiburg, Germany |
Title | Woman Grandmaster |
Peak rating | 2346 (January 2008) |
Lara Stock (born 26 May 1992 in Freiburg, Germany) is a Croatian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
She lives in Freiburg. Her mother is Croatian, her father is German.
Her chess coach was Ognjen Cvitan.
Stock won the World Under-10 Girls Championship in 2002 and the European U12 Girls Championship in 2004.
She earned her third and final Woman Grandmaster norm in the 2007 Trieste Open.
In 2011, she and her father Michael generated controversy by using false names to win the Hamilton Rookies Shield, an amateur tournament in Hamilton, New Zealand, and compete in other tournaments in the Australian circuit.