Svetlana Matveeva

Svetlana Matveeva
Full name Svetlana Vladislavovna Matveeva
Country  Russia
Born 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.

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