Tamāra Vilerte (born 5 March 1954 in

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), also known as Tamāra Rudovska, is a

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player who won the World Senior Women Chess Championship in 2008 ( Bad Zwischenahn,

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) and holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. In 2008, she took second place in European Senior Women Chess Championship in

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. Vilerte won the Latvian Girl Championship in 1971 and 1972. In 1972 she shared third through seventh place at the Soviet Junior Championship. She also shared the

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for women in 1973. Vilerte graduated from the Daugavpils Pedagogical Institute. She is a biology teacher by profession but works as a chess trainer. Her brother Jānis Vilerts (1943–2001) was director at the Kuldiga Chess School.

References

* Žuravļevs, N.; Dulbergs, I.; Kuzmičovs, G. (1980) (in Latvian), Latvijas šahistu jaunrade, Riga: Avots. pp. 95 – 96

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* * 1954 births Living people Latvian female chess players Latvian chess players Soviet female chess players Soviet chess players Chess Woman Grandmasters World Senior Chess Champions Chess players from Omsk {{Latvia-chess-bio-stub