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Tatjana Lematschko (March 16, 1948 – May 17, 2020) was a
Soviet
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-born
Swiss
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chess player, She was born in
Moscow
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,
FIDE obituary
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for several years.
She won both the Women's Bulgarian Chess Championship
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and Swiss Chess Championship The Swiss Chess Championship is held annually during two weeks of July. It is organised by the Swiss Chess Federation (the SSB), which has been a member of the overall governing body, Swiss Olympic, since 2000. The SSB is itself a relatively new org ...
several times.
She has competed for the world championship, most recently in the Women's World Chess Championship 1999
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199 ...
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At the 27th Chess Olympiad
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she won a medal for the best performance on no. 1 board.
WGM Tatjana Lematschko died in Zurich, aged 72.
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her games
Swiss chess players
1948 births
2020 deaths
Chess players from Moscow
Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, Department of Chess alumni
Soviet emigrants to Switzerland
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