Tatiana Zatulovskaya

Tatjana Jakovlevna Satulowskaja (Russian Татьяна Яковлевна Затуловская, scientific transliteration Tat'jana Jakovlevna Zatulovskaja; born December 8, 1935 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR ) is a Russian woman Grand Master ( WGM ) in chess. It was 1993 and 1997 World Champion of seniors. In 2001 she emigrated to Israel and played in the Chess Olympiad 2002 for this country. She is married to a sports journalist.

In the trade press of the last name is also written as Zatulovskaya, Zatulovskaia, Zatulovskaja, Zatulowskaya, ... Zatulowskaia. For the first names you will find the spelling Tatiana.

Individual successes

Satulowskaja reached three times the first place in the USSR Ladies Championship, namely 1960, 1962 and 1963. 1960, she was defeated by tag fight against Valentina Borisenko and 1963 against Maaja Ranniku. In the 1960s and 1970s, she qualified for the interzonal tournaments often (1964, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1979), reaching several times the Candidates tournament for the World Cup, was at that time, however, in the shadow of Nona Gaprindashvili and Alla Kushnir. In 1992, she won second place in the Senior World Championships in Bad Woerishofen. The following year, she won the World Chess Championship of seniors in 1993 in Bad Wildbad with 10 points from 11 games ( 9, -0 = 2). At the Chess World Championship for Seniors 1997, she was the second time Senior World Champion.

Team success

Frequently she was appointed to countries struggles in the national team. 1963 and 1966 she participated in the Chess Olympiad. Since the 1990/91 season she played with the women's team of SK Zehlendorf in the second and first Chess League.

Title and rating

1961 she was awarded the World Chess Federation FIDE the title of International Master (WIM). In 1976 she was female grandmaster. Your best historical Elo rating was 2371 This they reached in March 1973 your current Elo rating is 2027 (as of November 2010).. .