| Adriana Nikolova | |
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Nikolova competing in the Alois Nagler Memorial, Zürich, Switzerland, 2009 |
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| Full name | Adriana Nikolova (Адриана Николова) |
| Country | Bulgaria |
| Born | November 8, 1988 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (2011) |
| FIDE rating | 2298 (July 2010 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2389 (November 2009) |
Adriana Nikolova (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Адриана Николова; born November 8, 1988 in Stara Zagora) is a Bulgarian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is presently Bulgaria's newest WGM and her current chess club team is Loko 2004 from Plovdiv.
In November 2008, Nikolova earned the title of Woman International Master (WIM).[1] She has so far represented her country in three major chess championships - the European Team Chess Championship, which was held in Novi Sad in 2009 (scoring 1.5/7 on Board 2),[2] the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk (achieving 5/9 on Board 3)[3], as well as the 2011 European Team Chess Championship hosted within the Porto Carras resort in Greece (managing 4.5/7 on Board 4).[4] In July 2011, she received a gold medal and an official certificate to honour her achievement in becoming a grandmaster.[5] Nikolova also won the last edition of the Bulgarian Women Chess Championship 2011 (scoring 9/11).