Denise Bouah (born 26 November 1980), formerly known as Denise Frick, is a South African chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master.
In 2005, in Cape Town she won the Republic of South Africa Women's Chess Championship,[2] and in Lusaka won a bronze medal in the African Women's Chess Championship.
[4] In 2012, in Khanty-Mansiysk she made her debut at the Women's World Chess Championship, where she lost in the first round to Humpy Koneru.
[9] She has participated three times in the Women's Chess Team tournament in the African Games (2003-2011), where she won two silvers (2003, 2007) and a bronze (2011) medal in the team competition, and in the individual competition she won the silver (2011) medal.
Her master's degree work a concerned the use of chess as a therapeutic tool for assisting in the treatment of substance abuse.