Valentina Borisenko
| Valentina Borisenko | |
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Woman Grandmaster | |
| Peak rating | 2255 (January 1990)[1] |
Valentina Mikhaylovna Borisenko (
née Belova; Russian: Валентина Михайловна Борисенко; Cherepovets, 28 January 1920 – Saint Petersburg, 6 March 1993) was a Soviet chess
player.
She was a five-time winner of the
Women's Soviet Championship: 1945, 1955, 1957, 1960, and 1961 (a record shared with Nona Gaprindashvili
).
She won the Leningrad women's chess championship seven times (1940, 1945, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, and 1956), and four times the RSFSR women's championship.
In the Women's World Chess Championship 1949–50 she tied for 3rd–4th with Elisaveta Bykova.[2]
In 1970 she was equal first with
Halle
.
In 1977 she was awarded by
Woman Grandmaster
for her results in the years 1945-1970.
Her husband was Russian correspondence chess player Georgy Borisenko, who also trained her to play chess.[3] Their son is also a chess player and holds a Candidate Master title.
References
- ^ Borisenko-Belova, Valentina FIDE rating history, 1976-2001 at OlimpBase.org
- ^ Mark Weeks' Championship table
- ^ "Obituary - GM Georgy Borisenko". FIDE. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
External links
- Valentina M Belova chess games at 365Chess.com
- Velentina Borisenko-Belova player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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