Valentina Kozlovskaya | |
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Valentina Kozlovskaya, 1995 |
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Full name | Валентина Козловская |
Country | Russia |
Born | April 18, 1938 Essentuki, Soviet Union |
Title | Woman Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2271 (November 2010) |
Valentina Kozlovskaya (Russian: Валентина Козловская; born 18 April 1938, Essentuki) 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.[1]
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.