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]

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Yakovlevna and the family name is Kozlovskaya.
Valentina Kozlovskaya
Valentina Kozlovskaya, 1996
Full nameValentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya
CountryRussia
Born (1938-04-18) 18 April 1938
Yessentuki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
TitleWoman Grandmaster (1976)
FIDE rating2239 (December 2015)
Peak rating2315 (January 1975)[1]
Kozlovskaya in 1968

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
  1. Valentina Kozlovskaya FIDE rating history, 1972-2001 at OlimpBase.org
  2. "The Week in Chess 107". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2018-11-24.
  3. OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiads Soviet Union, Individual Record
  4. 14th European Senior 65+ Ladies Chess Championship 2014. chess-results.com.


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