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Women's World Chess Championship 1978

Index Women's World Chess Championship 1978

The 1978 Women's World Chess Championship was won by Maia Chiburdanidze, who defeated the incumbent champion Nona Gaprindashvili At only 17 years of age, Chiburdanidze became the sixth and youngest Women's World Champion (Gaprindashvili had been 20 when she first won the title). [1]

39 relations: Alla Kushnir, Bad Kissingen, Brigitte Burchardt, Corry Vreeken, Diane Savereide, Dortmund, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Elena Fatalibekova, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Gertrude Baumstark, Ilse Guggenberger, Interzonal, Irina Levitina, Jana Bellin, Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Liudmila Belavenets, Maia Chiburdanidze, Maria Cristina de Oliveira, Marta Litinskaya-Shul, Mária Ivánka, Milunka Lazarević, Nana Alexandria, Narelle Kellner, Nona Gaprindashvili, Petra Feibert, Rita Gramignani, Roosendaal, Ruth Haring, Sochi, Sofia, Tallinn, Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Tatjana Lematschko, Tatyana Fomina, Tbilisi, Valentina Kozlovskaya, West Berlin, Women's World Chess Championship, Zsuzsa Verőci.

Alla Kushnir

Alla Shulimovna Kushnir (אלה שולימובנה קושניר; Алла Шулимовна Кушнир; 11 August 1941 – 2 August 2013) was a Russian–born Israeli chess Woman Grandmaster.

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Bad Kissingen

Bad Kissingen is a spa town in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia and seat of the district Bad Kissingen.

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Brigitte Burchardt

Brigitte Burchardt (born 17 October 1954), née Hofmann, also Burchardt-Hofmann, is a German chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1975).

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Corry Vreeken

Maria Cornelia Vreeken (born 22 December 1928), née Corry Bouwman, also Corry Vreeken-Bouwman, is a Dutch chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1987).

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Diane Savereide

Diane Savereide (born 25 November 1954) is an American chess player who hold the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1978).

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Dortmund

Dortmund (Düörpm:; Tremonia) is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya

Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya (born Elena Bronislavovna Akhmilovskaya, Елена Брониславовна Ахмыловская; 11 March 1957 – 18 November 2012) was a Woman Grandmaster of chess.

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Elena Fatalibekova

Elena Abramovna Fatalibekova (Елена Абрамовна Фаталибекова; née Rubtsova; born October 4, 1947, in Moscow) is a Russian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) since 1977.

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Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

Georgia, formally the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR; tr; Gruzinskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), was one of the republics of the Soviet Union from its inception in 1922 to its breakup in 1991.

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Gertrude Baumstark

Gertrude Baumstark (born 21 May 1941), is a Romanian and German chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1970).

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Ilse Guggenberger

Ilse D. Guggenberger (née de Caro) (born 1 April 1942) is a Colombian chess master.

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Interzonal

Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Irina Levitina

Irina Solomonovna Levitina (born June 8, 1954) is a Russian-American chess and bridge player.

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Jana Bellin

Jana Bellin (née Malypetrová; born 9 December 1947) is a British, formerly Czechoslovak chess player.

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Käty van der Mije-Nicolau

Käty van der Mije-Nicolau (22 July 1940 – 14 October 2013), born Alexandra Ekatarina Nicolau, was a Dutch-Romanian chess player and Woman Grandmaster.

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Liudmila Belavenets

Liudmila Belavenets (or Lyudmila Belavenets, Russian: Людмила Сергеевна Белавенец; born June 7, 1940, in Moscow) is a Russian woman International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, the fourth ICCF Women's World Champion in correspondence chess (1984–1992).

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Maia Chiburdanidze

Maia Chiburdanidze (მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess grandmaster, and the seventh Women's World Chess Champion, the youngest one until 2010, when this record was broken by Hou Yifan.

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Maria Cristina de Oliveira

Maria Cristina de Oliveira (born 29 August 1959) is a Brazilian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1977).

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Marta Litinskaya-Shul

Marta Ivanivna Litynska (Марта Іванівна Літинська; Марта Ивановна Литинская, Marta Ivanovna Litinskaya; born 25 March 1949 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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Mária Ivánka

Mária Ivánka (Budapest, 23 February 1950) Hungarian chess Woman Grandmaster.

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Milunka Lazarević

Milunka Lazarević (born 1 December 1932 in Šantarovac, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian chess player and journalist.

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Nana Alexandria

Nana Alexandria (ნანა გიორგის ასული ალექსანდრია, Nana Giorgis asuli Aleksandria; born 13 October 1949) is a Georgian chess Woman Grandmaster (1976) and International Arbiter (1995).

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Narelle Kellner

Narelle Kellner (18 October 1934 – 20 December 1987), née Jorgensen, was an Australian chess player who held the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1977).

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Nona Gaprindashvili

Nona Gaprindashvili (ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess player, the sixth women's world chess champion (1962–1978), and first female Grandmaster.

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Petra Feibert

Petra Feibert (11 June 1958 – 18 July 2010), née Feustel, was a German chess player who held the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1977).

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Rita Gramignani

Rita Gramignani (born 12 October 1943) is an Italian chess player.

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Roosendaal

Roosendaal is both a city and a municipality in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.

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Ruth Haring

Ruth Inez Haring (also known as Ruth Orton) (born January 23, 1955) is a Woman International Master of chess.

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Sochi

Sochi (a) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/Abkhazia and Russia.

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Sofia

Sofia (Со́фия, tr.) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

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Tallinn

Tallinn (or,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Estonia.

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Tatiana Zatulovskaya

Tatiana Zatulovskaya (טטיאנה זטולובסקיה; Татьяна Яковлевна Затуловская, Tatiana Yakovlevna Zatulovskaya; 8 December 1935 – 2 July 2017) was an Israeli (formerly Soviet and Russian) chess player.

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Tatjana Lematschko

Tatjana Lematschko (born March 16, 1948 in Moscow) is a Swiss chess player, originally Russian but lived in Bulgaria for several years.

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Tatyana Fomina

Tatyana Fomina (born April 26, 1954 in Tallinn) is an Estonian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster and twice European senior women's champion.

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Tbilisi

Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some countries also still named by its pre-1936 international designation Tiflis, is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million people.

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Valentina Kozlovskaya

Valentina Kozlovskaya (Валентина Козловская; born 18 April 1938 in Yessentuki) is a Russian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and the 1996 Senior Women's World Chess Champion.

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West Berlin

West Berlin (Berlin (West) or colloquially West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War.

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Women's World Chess Championship

The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the women's world champion in chess.

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Zsuzsa Verőci

Zsuzsa Verőci (born February 19, 1949) is a Hungarian chess Woman International Master (1969) and Woman Grandmaster (1978).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_World_Chess_Championship_1978

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