Regina Theissl-Pokorna

Regina Theissl-Pokorna, born in Bratislava in 1982,
is a Slovak-Austrian Woman Grandmaster and ChessBase author.
She enjoyed significant international success from an early age, winning the European Under-10 Girls’ Championship in 1992
and finishing second at the 1994 World Under-12 Girls’ Championship.
In 1999, Theissl-Pokorna won both the European Under-20 Girls’ Championship
and the European Women’s Team Championship with Slovakia, also claiming an individual bronze medal for her performance on board two.
She earned the Woman Grandmaster title in 2000.
Her peak rating of 2429, achieved in July 2003, placed her among the world’s top 30 female players at the time.
Theissl-Pokorna won the Slovak Women’s Championship in 2009.
Since 2015, she has represented the Austrian Chess Federation and became Austrian Women’s Champion in 2019.
She has represented both countries at numerous Chess Olympiads.
From 2022 until early 2025, Theissl-Pokorna chaired the European Chess Union’s Women’s Commission
and continues to serve on the commission as a councillor.