Valentina Gunina: Difference between revisions

|imagename = Valentina Gunina 2015.jpg

|caption = Gunina in [[Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai|Chita]], Russia, 20152023

|birthnamefull_name = Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina

|country = [[Russia]] (until 2023)<br>[[FIDE]] (since 2023)

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|2|4|df=y}}

|worldchampionrating =

'''Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pogonina.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2500|title=Vladimir Putin Congratulates Russian Women's Chess Team|publisher=[[Natalia Pogonina]]'s website|date=2014-08-20 August 2014|accessdate=2015-08access-date=22 August 2015}}</ref> Gunina''' ({{lang-ru|Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина}}; born 4 February 41989, 1989 in [[Murmansk]])<ref>[http://ratings.fide.com/crt/main221014.pdf GM title application] FIDE</ref> is a Russian [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]. She is the two-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion (2012 and 2023), has won thrice the Women's [[European Individual Chess Championship]] three times (2012, 2014, 2018), and threehas timeswon the [[Russian Chess Championship|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 Olympiad]]s of 2010, 2012, 2014 and, at the Women's [[European Team Chess Championship]]s of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2015at 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 [[List of female winners of open chess tournaments|victories for a femalewoman at a top -level chess tournament]], defeating several maletop [[Grandmaster100 (chess)|Grandmasters]]grandmasters along the way.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pein|first= Malcolm |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/24/london-chess-classic-valentina-gunina-wins-super-rapid/|title=London Chess Classic: Valentina Gunina wins Super Rapid|date=December 24, December 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdateaccess-date=February 11, February 2017}}</ref>

In 2006, she won the Women's Russian Championship Higher League scoring 7/9 and qualified for the [[Russian Chess Championship#Women|Russian Women's Championship Superfinal]].<ref>[http{{Cite web|url=https://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic609.html#13|title=The TWICWeek in Chess 609]|website=theweekinchess.com|accessdate=1 September 2024}}</ref> She placed eleventh with 2.5/11.<ref>[http{{Cite web|url=https://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic632.html#4|title=The TWICWeek in Chess 632]|website=theweekinchess.com|accessdate=1 September 2024}}</ref> In 2008, she won for the second time the Women's Russian Championship Higher League for the second time with a score of 7.5/9. In the Superfinal she scored 4/9. In 2009, she won the Russian junior (under 20) girls championship.<ref>[http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic757.html#24] TWIC 757</ref>

In 2012, she won the [[Fast chess|Women's World Blitz Championship]] in [[Batumi]], Georgia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessdom.com/valentina-gunina-is-women-world-blitz-championship/|title=Valentina Gunina is Women World Blitz Championship|publisher=Chessdom|date=5 June 2012-06-05|accessdate=2015-09access-date=16 September 2015}}</ref> In the same year, Gunina competed for the first time in the [[Women's World Chess Championship 2012|Women's World Championship]]: she defeated [[Gu Xiaobing]] in the first round, then she was knocked out by [[Alisa Galliamova]] in round two. Gunina won the Russian women's [[Fast chess|rapid chess]] championship 2014 in [[Saint Petersburg]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Maletin and Gunina are new Russian Rapid Champions|url=http://www.chessdom.com/maletin-and-gunina-are-new-russian-rapid-champions/|publisher=Chessdom|accessdateaccess-date=13 March 2016|date=2014-05-22 May 2014}}</ref>

In January 2015, she took part in the [[Tata Steel Chess Tournament|Tata Steel]] Challengers tournament in [[Wijk aan Zee]], the Netherlands, where she scored 5/13.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/carlsen-wins-wijk-masters-wei-yi-wins-b|title=Carlsen wins Wijk masters, Wei Yi wins B|publisher=ChessBase|date=2012-01-25 January 2012|accessdate=2015-09access-date=16 September 2015}}</ref> At the [[Women's World Chess Championship 2015]] Gunina made it to the third round, where she was eliminated by [[Pia Cramling]], after knocking out [[Camilla Baginskaite]] and [[Olga Girya]]. In September 2015, she won the [[Moscow]] Women's Blitz Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/9049-ian-nepomniachtchi-and-valentina-gunina-win-the-moscow-blitz-chess-championships-.html|title=Ian Nepomniachtchi and Valentina Gunina win the Moscow Blitz Chess Championships|publisher=FIDE|date=11 September 2015|access-09-11date=16 September 2015|accessdatearchive-date=21 November 2015|archive-09url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121001830/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-16tournaments/9049-ian-nepomniachtchi-and-valentina-gunina-win-the-moscow-blitz-chess-championships-.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In February 2019, she became the first ever winner of The Cairns Cup, in Saint Louis, as she ended victoriously the tournament with 7 out of 9. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uschesschamps.com:443/2019-cairns-cup/standings|title=Standings &#124; www.uschesschamps.com|website=uschesschamps.com|accessdate=1 September 2024}}</ref>

In late May 2019, Valentina faced American GM [[Irina Krush]] in the quarterfinal match of the 2019 Women's Speed Chess Championship, an online [[Fast chess|blitz and bullet]] competition hosted by [[Chess.com]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chess.com/article/view/2019-speed-chess-championship#wscc2019|title = Nakamura Defeats So to Repeat as Speed Chess Champion| date=8 April 2020 }}</ref>. Valentina dominated the match and won with an overall score of 24–5.<ref>{{cite web|url =https://www.chess.com/news/view/2019-women-speed-chess-championship-gunina-krush|title =Women's Speed Chess: Gunina Crushes Krush|first =Peter|last =Doggers|website =Chess.com|date =28 May 2019}}</ref>

On 25 October 2014, she was awarded the [[Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]], 1st class "for great contribution to the development of physical culture and sport, the high sporting achievements at the [[41st Chess Olympiad|XXXXI World Chess Olympiad]] in Tromsø (Norway)".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.kremlin.ru/media/events/files/41d5142535a08ec5a338.pdf|title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 октября 2014 года № 680 «"О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»"|trans-title=Russian Federation Presidential Decree of 25 October 2014 No. 680 "On conferring state awards of the Russian Federation"|language=ru|page=22|website=kremlin.ru|accessdateaccess-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>

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