Tatiana Shumiakina (russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Шумякина; born 4 October 1965) is a Russian

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player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1994).

Chess career

In 1990 Shumiakina won a bronze medal in

USSR Women's Chess Championship The Women's Soviet Chess Championship was played in the Soviet Union from 1927 through 1991 to determine the women's chess national champion. The championship was not played on a regular basis in the years 1927–1937 and there was a break during ...

. In 2000 she won Russia Women's Chess Cup. Won multiple international women's chess tournaments:

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(1988), Chelyabinsk (1990), Timișoara (1994)

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(1994, together with Elena-Luminiţa Cosma). Shumiakina twice participated in the

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Interzonal Tournaments where in 1993 in

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and in 1995 in Chişinău she ranked 22nd place. In 2001 Tatiana Shumiakina participated in

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and in the first round lost to

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. Shumiakina played for Russia in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1992, at third board in the 30th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+5, =3, -4), * In 1994, at third board in the 31st Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+4, =3, -3), * In 1998, at third board in the 33rd Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+6, =1, -1) and won team silver and individual gold medals. In 1989, she was awarded the FIDE

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(WIM) title and received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title five year later. Shumiakina graduated from the Chelyabinsk State Institute of Physical Culture. She works as a chess trainer in Chelyabinsk children and youth sports school.

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