Valentina Gunina

Valentina Evgenevna Gunina (Russian Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина, English spelling, which is used by FIDE: Valentina Gunina; born February 4, 1989 in Murmansk ) is a Russian chess champion.

Life

Valentina Gunina already distinguished himself as a girl and young player as an excellent chess player. She won four gold medals at European and World Championships: She was U12 European Champion in Kallithea (2000), U14 World Champion in Kallithea (2003), U16 European Champion in Urgup (2004) and Under-18 World Champion in Kemer ( 2007).

Valentina Gunina was third at the Russian Women Championships in Moscow 2009.

At the European Championships 2009 in Novi Sad, she won the Russian women's team and individually they won the bronze medal. At the Chess Olympiad 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, she won the first Russian women's choice by a wide margin gold, plus it has contributed 6.5 points from 7, with an almost super big masterly Elo performance 2693rd for the win an individual gold medal she had a lot need to play more.

In August 2011, she won in Moscow with 6.5 points from 9 games for the first time the national championship of Russia. In March 2012, she won after a victory in the last round against the then leading Anna Musytschuk chess Europe Women's Championship in Gaziantep. Gunina scored 8.5 points from 11 games and had with an Elo performance of 2660, the best fine classification. In June 2012, she won in Batumi the Blitz World Championship for Women. 2013 she won again in Nizhny Novgorod, the Russian national championship.

Valentina Gunina carries the title of International Master since 2011 and the Grandmaster title since 2013 's third best according to Elo player of Russia and is out in the world rankings of women in the fourteenth place (as of December 2013)..