Kira Zvorykina

Kira Zvorykina
Zvorykina in 1957, at the 1st Women's Chess Olympiad
Country Soviet Union
Born(1919-09-29)September 29, 1919
Mykolaiv, Soviet Union
DiedSeptember 6, 2014(2014-09-06) (aged 94)
Moscow, Russia
TitleWoman Grandmaster (1978)
Peak rating2295 (January 1990)

Kira Alekseyevna Zvorykina (Russian: Ки́ра Алексе́евна Зворы́кина, Belarusian: Кіра Аляксееўна Зварыкіна; September 29, 1919 – September 6, 2014) was a Soviet chess player who spent many years living in Belarus. She was a three-time winner of the Women's Soviet Championship. In 2018, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.[1]

  1. ^ "Kira Zvorykina". World Chess Hall of Fame.