Nurgyul Salimova
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Nurgyul Salimova is a Bulgarian chess player. She was awarded the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019. Salimova won the Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship in 2017. I
Salimova at the 2024 Women's Candidates Tournament
Salimova in Chennai, 2022
Aleksandra Goryachkina
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Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina is a Russian chess grandmaster. She is the highest rated Russian woman in chess history with a peak FIDE rating of 2611. Goryachkina was the challenger in the 2020 Wome
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…ahead of six GMs and lost only to the champion, Kiril Georgiev. In the Women's Chess World Cup 2023, she reached the final where she lost to 2nd-ranked Aleksandra Goryachkina. Ranked 29th in the event, she defeated Charlize van Zyl, Oliwia Kiołbasa, Mary Ann Gomes and Medina Warda Aulia, before upset wins over 12th-ranked…
Goryachkina at the Russian Chess Championship Superfinal 2024
Goryachkina with her father (2015)
Goryachkina at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in 2013
Goryachkina (center) holding the winner's prizes at the 2017 Russian Women's Championship Superfinal, left Natalia Pogonina and right Alina Kashlinskaya