Valentina Kozlovskaya
Valentina Kozlovskaya | |
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Valentina Kozlovskaya, 1996 | |
Full name | Валентина Козловская |
Country | Russia |
Born |
Yessentuki, Soviet Union | April 18, 1938
Title | Woman Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2271 (November 2010) |
Valentina Kozlovskaya (Russian: Валентина Козловская; born April 18, 1938 in Yessentuki) is a Russian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and the 1996 Senior Women's World Chess Champion.
Kozlovskaya won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1965. She came second in the 1967 Women's Candidates Tournament. In the same year she placed second to Nona Gaprindashvili in a women's international tournament at Kiev. She won the gold medal at the Chess Olympiad in Havana 1966.[1]
On the March 2010 FIDE Elo list her rating is 2278.
Kozlovskaya is a biochemist by profession and her main hobby apart from chess is classical music.
She is the widow of grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky.
References
External links
- Valentina Kozlovskaya rating card at FIDE
- Valentina Kozlovskaya player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Valentina Kozlovskaya at 365Chess.com
- Biography (Russian)