Tatiana Stepovaya (russian: Татьяна Юрьевна Степовая; born 23 September 1965 in
Krasnodar
Krasnodar (; rus, Краснода́р, p=krəsnɐˈdar; ady, Краснодар), formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern ...
, also Tatiana Stepovaya-Dianchenko) is a
Russian 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 title of the
FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Chess career
Stepovaya was
Russian Women's Champion in 1987, 1988 and 1989. Many international chess tournament winner: divided the first place with
Alisa Galliamova
Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova (russian: Алиса Михайловна Галлямова, tt-Cyrl, Алисә Михаил кызы Галләмова; born 18 January 1972 in Kazan) is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Inte ...
in
Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East Eu ...
(1995), won in Tallinn (2002) and won
Elisaveta Bykova
Elisaveta Ivanovna Bykova (or ''Elisabeth Bykova'', Russian: Елизаве́та Ива́новна Бы́кова; 4 November 1913 – 8 March 1989) was a Soviet chess player and twice Women's World Chess Champion, from 1953 until 1956, and a ...
Memorial in
Vladimir (2006). In 2000 in
Batumi
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Stepovaya reached inaugural
European Individual Women Chess Championship semi-final, where lost to
Natalia Zhukova
Natalia Oleksandrivna Zhukova ( uk, Наталія Олександрівна Жукова; born 5 June 1979) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and two-time European women's champion. She won several age-group titles as a teenager, at both the E ...
, and together with the
Women's World Chess ex-Champion Maia Chiburdanidze divided 3rd-4th place. In 2001 Stepovaya with
Yugoslavia
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n chess club ''Agrouniverzal Zemun'' won the European Chess Club Cup for women.
Stepovaya has played for Russia in three
Chess Olympiads (1992, 1998-2000). She won team silver (
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
) and bronze (
2000
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) medals, and individual gold and silver (both
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
) medals.
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References
External links
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Tatiana_Stepovaia
chess games at 365Chess.com
1965 births
Chess Woman Grandmasters
Russian female chess players
Russian chess players
Soviet female chess players
Soviet chess players
Sportspeople from Krasnodar
Chess Olympiad competitors
Living people
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