Svetlana Matveeva

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Svetlana Matveeva
Full name	Svetlana Vladislavovna Matveeva
Country	Russia
Born	(1969-07-04) July 4, 1969 Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union
Title	International master, Woman Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2377(November 2012)
Peak rating	2502 (January 2004)

Svetlana Matveeva (born 4 July 1969 in Frunze) is a chess player from Russia. She is a Woman Grandmaster and an International master.

In 1984, she tied for first with Anna Akhsharumova in the Women's Soviet Chess Championship. She had a surprise result in the Women's World Chess Championship 2008 when she knocked out the defending champion, Xu Yuhua, in the second round.

External links

Svetlana Matveeva rating card at FIDE
Svetlana Matveeva player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Statistics at ChessWorld.net

Persondata
Name	Matveeva, Svetlana
Alternative names
Short description	Russian chess player
Date of birth	4 July 1969
Place of birth	Frunze, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death

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