Mähri Geldiýewa ( Ovezova, born 4 April 1973) is a
Turkmen chess
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player who holds the title of
Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Chess career
In 1993 in
Kozhikode
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Geldiýewa won the bronze medal in the
World Girls U-20 Championship. In 1998 in
Pahang
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Malaysia
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, she won the bronze medal in the
Asian women's Chess Championship. In 2009, she divided the second place in the international chess tournament in
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and won Turkmenistan women's chess championship.
In 1996 Geldiýewa awarded the
FIDE
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Woman International Master
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(WIM) and in 1998 the
Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title. She became the first and so far the only Turkmen women chess player who received a Woman Grandmaster title.
Teams
Geldiýewa has played from 1986 to 1991 for Turkmenistan in Soviet Women's Team Chess Championships. She has played for Turkmenistan in 7
Chess Olympiad
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s (1994-2002, 2006, 2010) and won two individual gold medals at Board 1 in
32nd Chess Olympiad (1996) and
33rd Chess Olympiad (1998). In 2010 she played in the
Asian Games
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1973 births
Turkmenistan chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
Chess Woman Grandmasters
Living people
Chess players at the 2006 Asian Games
Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Turkmenistan