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Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya

1957 - 2012

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Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya (born Elena Bronislavovna Akhmilovskaya, Russian: Елена Брониславовна Ахмыловская; 11 March 1957 – 18 November 2012) was a Soviet-born American chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977. She won the Women Candidates' tournament in 1986 and later in the same year played a match against Maia Chiburdanidze in Sofia for the Women's World Championship title, but lost by 8½–5½. Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya was born in Leningrad in a family where all members played chess. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya is the 247th most popular chess player (up from 251st in 2024), the 2,567th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,682nd in 2019) and the 36th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya ranks 247 out of 461. Before her are Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Harika Dronavalli, Alexander Morozevich, Andrija Fuderer, Cristina Adela Foișor, and Walter Browne. After her are Alexander Grischuk, Antoaneta Stefanova, Valery Salov, Lev Psakhis, Aloyzas Kveinys, and Emil Sutovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya ranks 568. Before her are Elżbieta Witek, Ali Divandari, Ralph Brown, Ammar Souayah, Janet Napolitano, and Norbert Növényi. After her are Claude Onesta, Rui Veloso, Jenifer Lewis, Zhivko Gospodinov, Tertius Zongo, and Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet. Among people deceased in 2012, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya ranks 463. Before her are Alan McDonald, John Arden, Dubravko Pavličić, Alan Cottrell, Fontella Bass, and Andrew Sarris. After her are Mehdi Hassan, Jules Bocandé, Joe Paterno, Kenny Rollins, Joe Kubert, and Sylvia Fedoruk.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya ranks 2,567 out of 3,761. Before her are Yulia Latynina (1966), Tom Conway (1904), Oleg Mityaev (1974), Karen Khachanov (1996), Oksana Akinshina (1987), and Ilya Ponomarev (1975). After her are Sergey Mikaelyan (1923), Pavel Grudinin (1960), Alexander Grischuk (1983), Ludmilla Radchenko (1978), Vladimir Artemov (1964), and Nikolai Sologubov (1924).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya ranks 36. Before her are Gata Kamsky (1974), Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984), Anatoly Lein (1931), Larissa Volpert (1926), Yuri Balashov (1949), and Alexander Morozevich (1977). After her are Alexander Grischuk (1983), Lev Psakhis (1958), Andrei Sokolov (1963), Peter Svidler (1976), Leonid Yudasin (1959), and Yury Dokhoian (1964).

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