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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 different languages on Wikipedia. Valentina Gunina is the 392nd most popular chess player (down from 327th in 2019), the 3,366th most popular biography from Russia (down from 3,153rd in 2019) and the 65th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Valentina Gunina ranks 392 out of 461. Before her are Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Ekaterina Atalik, Rauf Mamedov, 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 894. Before her are Amer Abdulrahman, Philipp Hosiner, Jonny Bairstow, Ousmane Coulibaly, André Pinto, and Marwan Mohsen. After her are Jesse James, Martina Zubčić, April Pearson, Jonathan Zongo, Yarden Gerbi, and Zargo Touré.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valentina Gunina ranks 3,366 out of 3,761. Before her are Tamerlan Bashaev (1996), Marina Kuptsova (1981), Evgenii Dadonov (1989), 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 Olena Kryvytska (1987).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Valentina Gunina ranks 65. Before her are Evgeniy Najer (1977), Yelena Dembo (1983), Anish Giri (1994), Dmitry Andreikin (1990), Nikita Vitiugov (1987), 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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