Adriana Nikolova

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Adriana Nikolova

Nikolova competing in the Alois Nagler Memorial, Zürich, Switzerland, 2009
Full name Adriana Nikolova (Адриана Николова)
Country  Bulgaria
Born (1988-11-08) November 8, 1988
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Title Woman Grandmaster (2011)
FIDE rating 2296 (January 2012 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 Lokomotiv 2000 from Plovdiv,[1] with which she has won three national championships.[2]

In November 2008, Nikolova earned the title of Woman International Master (WIM).[3] She has so far represented her country in four major chess championships - the European Team Chess Championship, which was held in Novi Sad in 2009 (scoring 1.5/7 on Board 2),[4] the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk (achieving 5/9 on Board 3),[5] the 2011 European Team Chess Championship hosted within the Porto Carras resort in Greece (managing 4.5/7 on Board 4),[6] as well as the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (finishing with 5/9 points on Board 3).[7] In July 2011, she received a gold medal and an official certificate to honour her achievement in becoming a grandmaster.[8] Nikolova also won the last edition of the Bulgarian Women Chess Championship 2011 (scoring 9/11). Nikolova married chess arbiter Dimitar Iliev in 2011.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Чепаринов спечели трета титла, Виденова - първа
  2. ↑ Интервю с шампионката на България за 2011 г. - гросмайстор Адриана Николова, 1 февруари 2013-та
  3. ↑ Nikolova, Adriana, FIDE Title Applications, 79th FIDE Congress, 16–26 November 2008, Dresden, GER
  4. ↑ Team-Composition for federation BUL, 17th European Women's Team Chess Championship 2009, chess-results.com
  5. ↑ Team-Composition for federation BUL - Women, 39th Olympiad Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 Women tournament, chess-results.com
  6. ↑ Team-Composition for federation BUL - Women, 2011 European Team Chess Championship, http://euro2011.chessdom.com/
  7. ↑ Team-Composition for federation BUL - Women, 40th Olympiad Istanbul 2012 Women tournament, chess-results.com
  8. ↑ Утре слагат шампионската корона на Адриана Николова
  9. ↑ Антоанета Стефанова запази мястото на България в елита

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