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Valentina Gunina

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Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina (Russian: Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина; born 4 February 1989) is a Russian chess grandmaster. She is the two-time Women's 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 or victories for a woman at a top-level chess tournament, defeating several top 100 grandmasters along the way. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Valentina Gunina is the 419th most popular chess player (down from 327th in 2024), the 3,566th most popular biography from Russia (down from 3,151st in 2019) and the 71st most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Valentina Gunina ranks 419 out of 461. Before her are Ekaterina Atalik, Rauf Mamedov, Nelly Aginian, Csaba Balogh, Baadur Jobava, and Sarasadat Khademalsharieh. After her are Bartosz Soćko, Alina Kashlinskaya, Yury Shulman, Ferenc Berkes, Bu Xiangzhi, and Marie Sebag.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Valentina Gunina ranks 934. Before her are Amer Abdulrahman, Philipp Hosiner, Jonny Bairstow, Ousmane Coulibaly, André Pinto, and Marwan Mohsen. After her are Jesse James, Martina Zubčić, Chris Sale, April Pearson, Jonathan Zongo, and Yarden Gerbi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valentina Gunina ranks 3,566 out of 3,761. Before her are Marina Kuptsova (1981), Evgenii Dadonov (1989), Lyubov Aksyonova (1990), Tatiana Kashirina (1991), Irina Stankina (1977), and Irina Osipova (1981). After her are Konstantin Rausch (1990), Alina Kashlinskaya (1993), Tatyana Veshkurova (1981), Dmitri Yaroshenko (1976), Nina Vislova (1986), and Elena Tchalykh (1974).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Valentina Gunina ranks 71. Before her are Anish Giri (1994), Vadim Zvjaginsev (1976), Dmitry Andreikin (1990), Nikita Vitiugov (1987), Konstantin Sakaev (1974), and Ekaterina Atalik (1982). After her are Alina Kashlinskaya (1993), Tatiana Kosintseva (1986), Vladimir Potkin (1982), Nadezhda Kosintseva (1985), Igor Kurnosov (1985), and Vladimir Fedoseev (1995).

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