Ludmila Feodorovna Saunina (born 1952 in
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...
) is a Russian chess player, and a woman grandmaster.
She has won several women's chess championships: the
Russian Chess Championship
The Russian Chess Championship has taken various forms.
Winners by year (men) Imperial Russia
In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first ...
in 1972, the
Moldovan Chess Championship The Moldovan Chess Championship has been contested every year since 1944. Since 1949 a separate women's championship has also been held in most years. Both championships are currently held under the auspices of the Moldova Chess Federation ( ro, Fed ...
in 1976, the
World Senior Chess Championship
The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation.
Overview
Originally, the minimum age was 60 years for men, and 50 for women.
Since 2014, the Senior Championship is split i ...
and the
European Senior Chess Championship The European Senior Chess Championship is a chess tournament for senior chess players organised by the European Chess Union (ECU). Beginning in 2001, entry was open to men aged sixty or over (60+) by January 1 of the year the tournament starts. The ...
.
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Living people
1952 births
Chess woman grandmasters
Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg
Russian female chess players
Date of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Russian women
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