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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Evgenyevna and the family name is Gunina.
Valentina Gunina
Gunina in 2023
Full name
Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina
Country
Russia (until 2023) FIDE (since 2023)
Born
(1989-02-04) February 4, 1989 (age 35) Murmansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title
Grandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating
2439 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2548 (June 2015)
Peak ranking
No. 6 woman (June 2015)
Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina[1] (Russian: Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина; born February 4, 1989, in Murmansk)[2] is a Russian chess grandmaster. She is the two-time 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 for a female at a top level chess tournament, defeating several male Grandmasters along the way.[3]
Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina (Russian: Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина; born February 4, 1989, in Murmansk) is a Russian chess grandmaster. She is the two-time...
world blitz champion is the Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen. ValentinaGunina from Russia is the current women's blitz world champion. Magnus Carlsen...
Anastasia Bodnaruk of Russia and the Women's World Blitz Chess Champion is ValentinaGunina, also from Russia. The World Chess Federation (FIDE) divides time controls...
January 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2015. "Ian Nepomniachtchi and ValentinaGunina win the Moscow Blitz Chess Championships". FIDE. 11 September 2015...
(eight wins and one draw), with a performance rating of 2992. Russian ValentinaGunina, playing on board two, was the best individual player in the Women's...
Russian Championship Super Final 2013 | the Week in Chess". "Lysyj and Gunina become 2014 Russian Champions – Chessdom". 8 December 2014. "Tomashevsky...
federation can play under the FIDE flag. Both such players as of 2023, ValentinaGunina and Aleksandra Goryachkina, previously played for Russia. "Woman Grandmaster...
Tournament in Wuxi with a score of 6.5/9 points, 1.5 ahead of runners-up ValentinaGunina and Huang Qian. In 2014 Tan won the Asian Women's Blitz Championship...
9–0 on first board for Zimbabwe at the 35th Olympiad (Bled, 2002). ValentinaGunina won the Women's section of the 2010 Moscow Blitz tournament with a...
would not have to face players from Israel. Nepomniachtchi, Kosteniuk and Gunina are Russians, but they competed under the Chess Federation of Russia flag...
format. The prize fund for the event was $150,000. The event was won by ValentinaGunina of Russia. The second edition of the Cairns Cup was held in February...
Kemer/Antalya (Turkey) Ivan Popov (Russia) ValentinaGunina (Russia) 2008 Vũng Tàu (Vietnam) Ivan Šarić (Croatia) Valentina Golubenko (Croatia) 2009 Antalya (Turkey)...
play a tiebreak, defeating Deysi Cori, Pia Cramling, Mariya Muzychuk, ValentinaGunina and Tan Zhongyi, before winning the tournament with a 1.5 - 0.5 score...
Kateryna Lagno on board one, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Natalia Pogonina, and ValentinaGunina. Ukraine with an average of 2505 rating points were the third highest...
playing fourth board behind Alexandra Kosteniuk, Kateryna Lagno, and ValentinaGunina. She won a bronze medal on the fourth board. Russia won another gold...
event, she placed second capturing the silver medal, losing only to ValentinaGunina, the eventual event winner. Her performance was 5/7 (+4 −1 = 3, rapid...
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