Nastassia Alyakseeўna Ziaziulkina ( be, Настасься Аляксееўна Зязюлькіна; born 6 October 1995) is a

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ian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player who holds the

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of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the Girls Under 16 section of the

World Youth Chess Championship The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cade ...

s in 2010 and 2011, and the Girls Under 18 at the

European Youth Chess Championship The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was als ...

s in 2013. Ziaziulkina also won the Women's

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in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2016. In 2014 and 2015 she competed in the absolute national championship, finishing respectively ninth and seventh."Kirill Stupak Wins Belarusian Championship Again"
Chess-News.ru. 2015-01-23. Retrieved 21 October 2015 Ziaziulkina competed in the

Women's World Chess Championship The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the world champion in women's chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE. Unlike with most sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, wher ...

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and

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. She was eliminated in the first round on both occasions by former women's world champions

Zhu Chen Zhu Chen (, ar, زو تشن; born March 13, 1976) is a Chinese-born Qatari chess Grandmaster. In 1999, she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and China's 13th Grandmaster. In 2006, she obtained Qatari c ...

and

Anna Ushenina Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina (; born 30 August 1985) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013. Personal life Ushenina lives in Kharkiv, where she was born. She is of Jewish ethnici ...

respectively.

References

External links

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Nastassia Ziaziulkina
chess games (2006-) at 365Chess.com
Nastasia Ziaziulkina
chess games (2004-2005) at 365Chess.com
"WGM Nastassia Ziaziulkina Interview"
ChessRex. 2013-01-30. Retrieved 21 October 2015 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ziaziulkina, Nastassia 1995 births Living people Chess International Masters Chess Woman Grandmasters World Youth Chess Champions Belarusian female chess players Belarusian chess players Chess players from Minsk