Valentina Kozlovskaya

Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya (Russian: Валенти́на Я́ковлевна Козло́вская; born 18 April 1938) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1976.

In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Yakovlevna and the family name is Kozlovskaya.
Valentina Kozlovskaya
Kozlovskaya at the World Seniors' Championships 1996
Full nameValentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya
CountrySoviet Union → Russia
Born (1938-04-18) 18 April 1938
Yessentuki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
TitleWoman Grandmaster (1976)
Peak rating2315 (January 1975)[1]
Kozlovskaya in 1968

Chess career

Kozlovskaya won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1965. She was a member of the victorious Soviet team at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Havana 1966.[2] She came second in the 1967 Women's Candidates Tournament. In the same year she placed second to women's world champion Nona Gaprindashvili in a women's international tournament at Kiev. In 1973 Kozlovskaya won the Women's Interzonal tournament and the next year, she lost the Candidates semifinal match to Irina Levitina. In 1976 Kozlovskaya won the RSFSR women's championship and in 1979, she shared first place with Ludmila Saunina. Kozlovskaya won the Women's World Senior Championship in 1996.[3] In 2014, she won the European Senior Championship in the women's 65+ division, ahead of Nona Gaprindashvili.[4]

Personal life

Kozlovskaya is a biochemist by profession. She is the widow of Grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky.

References
  1. Valentina Kozlovskaya FIDE rating history, 1972-2001 at OlimpBase.org
  2. Soviet Union, Individual Record. Women's Chess Olympiads, OlimpBase
  3. Crowther, Mark (1996-11-25). "The Week in Chess 107". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2018-11-24.
  4. 14th European Senior 65+ Ladies Chess Championship 2014. chess-results.com.


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