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Valentina Gunina | |
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Full name | Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina |
Country | Russia (until 2023) FIDE (since 2023) |
Born | Murmansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | February 4, 1989
Title | Grandmaster (2013) |
FIDE rating | 2435 (August 2024) |
Peak rating | 2548 (June 2015) |
Peak ranking | No. 6 woman (June 2015) |
Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina[1] (Russian: Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина; born February 4, 1989, in Murmansk)[2] is a Russian chess grandmaster. She is the two-time World Blitz Chess Champion (2012 and 2023), has won the Women's European Individual Chess Championship three times (2012, 2014, 2018), and has won the Russian Women's Championship five times (2011, 2013, 2014, 2021, 2022). She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012, 2014, at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and at the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017.
Gunina won the 2016 London Chess Classic Super Rapidplay Open in one of the best performances for a female at a top level chess tournament, defeating several male Grandmasters along the way.[3]