Valentina Kozlovskaya

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yakovlevna and the family name is Kozlovskaya.

Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya (Russian: Валенти́на Я́ковлевна Козло́вская; born 18 April 1938) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1976.

Valentina Kozlovskaya
Kozlovskaya at the World Seniors' Championships 1996
Full name	Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya
Country	Soviet Union → Russia
Born	(1938-04-18) 18 April 1938 (age 86) Yessentuki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title	Woman Grandmaster (1976)
Peak rating	2315 (January 1975)[1]

Kozlovskaya in 1968

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

Kozlovskaya is a biochemist by profession. She is the widow of Grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky.