Valentina Kozlovskaya
 Kozlovskaya at the World Seniors' Championships 1996 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya 18 April 1938 Yessentuki, Ordzhonikidze Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 22 December 2025 (aged 87) |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Soviet Union → Russia |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (1976) |
| Peak rating | 2315 (January 1975)[1] |
Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya (Russian: Валенти́на Я́ковлевна Козло́вская; 18 April 1938 – 22 December 2025) was a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1976.
Chess career
Kozlovskaya won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1965. She was a member of the victorious Soviet team at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Havana 1966.[2] She came second in the 1967 Women's Candidates Tournament. In the same year she placed second to women's world champion Nona Gaprindashvili in a women's international tournament at Kiev. In 1973 Kozlovskaya won the Women's Interzonal tournament and the next year, she lost the Candidates semifinal match to Irina Levitina. In 1976 Kozlovskaya won the RSFSR women's championship and in 1979, she shared first place with Ludmila Saunina. Kozlovskaya won the Women's World Senior Championship in 1996.[3] In 2014, she won the European Senior Championship in the women's 65+ division, ahead of Nona Gaprindashvili.[4]
Personal life and death
Kozlovskaya was a biochemist by profession. She was married to Grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky. Kozlovskaya died on 22 December 2025 at the age of 87.[5]
References
- ^ Valentina Kozlovskaya FIDE rating history, 1972-2001 at OlimpBase.org
- ^ Soviet Union, Individual Record. Women's Chess Olympiads, OlimpBase
- ^ Crowther, Mark (25 November 1996). "The Week in Chess 107". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ^ 14th European Senior 65+ Ladies Chess Championship 2014. chess-results.com.
- ^ "Ушла из жизни Валентина Яковлевна Козловская (1938–2025)". ruchess.ru. 23 December 2025. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
External links
- Valentina Kozlovskaya rating card at FIDE
- Valentina Kozlovskaya player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Valentina Kozlovskaya chess games at 365Chess.com
- Biography Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
