Valentina Kozlovskaya
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Valentina Kozlovskaya is a Russian chess
Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and the 1996 Senior Women's World Chess Champion
.
She won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship
in 1965. She came 2nd in the 1967 Women's Candidates Tournament
. In the same year she placed 2nd to Nona Gaprindashvili
in a women's international tournament at Kiev
. She won gold medal at the Chess Olympiad
in Havana
1966.
On the March 2010 FIDE Elo list her rating is 2278.
Kozlovskaya is biochemist
by profession and her main hobby apart from chess is classical music.
She was the wife of grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky
.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and the 1996 Senior Women's World Chess Champion
World Senior Chess Championship
The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation.Participants must have reached 60 years old on 1 January of the year of the event...
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She won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship
Women's Soviet Chess Championship
The Women's Soviet Chess Championship was played in the Soviet Union from 1927 through 1989 to determine the women's chess national champion.-List of winners:Winners of more titles* 5 titles : Valentina Borisenko, Nona Gaprindashvili...
in 1965. She came 2nd in the 1967 Women's Candidates Tournament
Women's World Chess Championship
The Women's World Chess Championship is played to determine the women's world champion in chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE....
. In the same year she placed 2nd to Nona Gaprindashvili
Nona Gaprindashvili
Nona Gaprindashvili is a Georgian chess player, the sixth women's world chess champion , and first female Grandmaster. Born in Zugdidi, Georgia , she was the strongest female player of her generation....
in a women's international tournament at Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
. She won gold medal at the Chess Olympiad
Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...
in Havana
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
1966.
On the March 2010 FIDE Elo list her rating is 2278.
Kozlovskaya is biochemist
Biochemistry
Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...
by profession and her main hobby apart from chess is classical music.
She was the wife of grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky
Igor Bondarevsky
Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky was a Soviet Russian chess Grandmaster in both over-the-board and correspondence chess, an International Arbiter, trainer, and chess author...
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