Irina Cheluskina ( sr-cyr, Ирина Чолушкина, Irina Čoluškina; born 1 February 1961 in
Kherson
Kherson (, ) is a port city of Ukraine
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) is a
Ukrainian
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and
Serbia
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n chess player and a
Woman Grandmaster
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.
She has won the
USSR Women's Chess Championship once, the Women's
Yugoslav Chess Championship The Yugoslav Chess Championship was an annual chess tournament held to determine the Yugoslav national champion and Yugoslavia's candidates for the World Chess Championship.
It was first played in 1935 in Belgrade, the capital of Kingdom of Yugosla ...
three times and the Serbian-Montenegrin championship twice, and the Women's
Serbian Chess Championship The Serbian Chess Championship is held by the Serbian Chess Association.
The first championships were played in 1935 and until 1991 they were the Yugoslav Chess Championship. In 1992 FR Yugoslavia was formed, which changed its name to Serbia and M ...
in 2022.
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1961 births
Living people
Serbian female chess players
Serbian chess players
Ukrainian female chess players
Ukrainian chess players
Chess Woman Grandmasters
Sportspeople from Kherson
Naturalized citizens of Serbia
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