Gulnar Sachs

Gulnar Sachs (née Gulnar Sakhatova (Russian: Гульнара Баяхметовна Сахатова), born 24 April 1963), is a Kazakhstan born English Woman International Master (WIM, 1985).

Gulnar Sachs
Country Soviet Union
 Kazakhstan
 United Kingdom
Born (1963-04-24) 24 April 1963
Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
TitleWoman International Master (WIM) (1985)

Biography

She is chess master Elvira Berend‘s older sister. From 1984 to 1989, she six times participated in the USSR Women's Chess Championship finals, with the best result in 1985, when she ranked 5th place. In 1986, she won the Soviet Armed Forces Women's Chess Championship. In the same year she won the international women's chess tournament in Tallinn, ahead of the leading Estonian chess players Tatyana Fomina and Maaja Ranniku. In 1985, she was awarded the FIDE International Women Master (WIM) title.

Gulnar Sachs two times participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments:

Gulnar Sachs played for Kazakhstan in the Women's Chess Olympiad:[3]

Due to family reasons, she has left her chess player's career.

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