Valentina Kozlovskaya
| Valentina Kozlovskaya | |
|---|---|
 Valentina Kozlovskaya, 1996 | |
| Full name | Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya |
| Country | Russia |
| Born | 18 April 1938 Yessentuki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (1976) |
| FIDE rating | 2239 (December 2015) |
| Peak rating | 2315 (January 1975)[1] |
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]
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)
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