Valentina Kozlovskaya
Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya (Russian: Валенти́на Я́ковлевна Козло́вская; born 18 April 1938) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1976. Kozlovskaya won the Women's World Senior Championship in 1996.[2]
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Full name | Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya |
Country | Russia |
Born | Yessentuki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 18 April 1938
Title | Woman Grandmaster (1976) |
FIDE rating | 2239 (December 2015) |
Peak rating | 2315 (January 1975)[1] |
Chess career
Kozlovskaya won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1965. She came second in the 1967 Women's Candidates Tournament. In the same year she placed second to Nona Gaprindashvili in a women's international tournament at Kiev. She won the gold medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Havana 1966.[3] In 1976 Kozlovskaya won the RSFSR women's championship and in 1979, she shared first place with Ludmila Saunina. In 2014, she won the European Senior Championship in the women's 65+ division.[4]
Kozlovskaya is a biochemist by profession and her main hobby apart from chess is classical music.
She is the widow of Grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky.
References
- Valentina Kozlovskaya FIDE rating history, 1972-2001 at OlimpBase.org
- "The Week in Chess 107". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2018-11-24.
- OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiads Soviet Union, Individual Record
- 14th European Senior 65+ Ladies Chess Championship 2014. chess-results.com.
External links
- Valentina Kozlovskaya rating card at FIDE
- Valentina Kozlovskaya player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Valentina Kozlovskaya chess games at 365Chess.com
- Biography (in Russian)