Valentina Gunina

Valentina Gunina
Gunina in 2023
Full nameValentina Evgenyevna Gunina
CountryRussia (until 2023)
FIDE (since 2023)
Born (1989-02-04) February 4, 1989 (age 35)
Murmansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating2435 (August 2024)
Peak rating2548 (June 2015)
Peak rankingNo. 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]

  1. ^ "Vladimir Putin Congratulates Russian Women's Chess Team". Natalia Pogonina's website. 2014-08-20. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  2. ^ GM title application FIDE
  3. ^ Pein, Malcolm (December 24, 2016). "London Chess Classic: Valentina Gunina wins Super Rapid". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved February 11, 2017.

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