Polina Sergeevna Shuvalova (russian: Полина Сергеевна Шувалова; born 12 March 2001) is a

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player. She holds the

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of International Master (IM, 2020) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2019). She is the 2019 World Girls U-20 Champion as well as the World Girl's U18 Champion in 2018 and 2019. Together with 43 other Russian chess players, Shuvalova signed an open letter to Russian president

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, protesting against the

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and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

Biography

Polina Shuvalova was a

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chess school student. In 2017, she won the Russian Junior Chess Championship for under-21 girls. In the 2000s Shuvalova repeatedly represented Russia at the

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s and

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s in different age groups, where she won four medals: two gold (in 2013, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the under-12 girls group, and in 2018, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the under-18 girls group), silver (in 2017, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the under-16 girls group) and bronze (in 2016, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the under-16 girls group). In April 2016, she won the Moscow Women's Chess Championship. In December 2017, in

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Shuvalova made her debut in the Russian Women's Chess Championship Superfinal in which she shared 7st-9st place with

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. The tournament was won by

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. In April 2018, She shared 2rd-8th in the European Women's Chess Championship in Vysoke Tatry, Slovakia and earned a spot in the 2020 Women's World Cup. In September 2018, she took 8th place in the Russian Women's Chess Championship Superfinal in

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. In October 2019, Shuvalova won the 2019 World Under 18 Girls' Championship in

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with a score of 8.5/11. Shortly after, she won the World Girls' Junior Championship in

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with a score of 9.5/11 and was awarded the

Woman Grandmaster FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WGM) title. In 2020,

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awarded her the

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(IM) title. In November, she won the 2020 Russian Women's Team Championship, where she played on the first board for the Moscow Chess Federation team. In December, Shuvalova tied for first place in the Russian Women Superfinal in Moscow with Aleksandra Goryachkina. They played a

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tie break which Shuvalova lost and she became the Vice Russia Women Chess Champion.

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