| Valentina Gunina | |
|---|---|
 Gunina in 2023 | |
| Full name | Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina |
| Country | Russia (until 2023) FIDE (since 2023) |
| Born | 4 February 1989 Murmansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster (2013) |
| FIDE rating | 2425 (November 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2548 (June 2015) |
| Peak ranking | No. 6 woman (June 2015) |
Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina[1] (Russian: Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина; born 4 February 1989)[2] is a Russian chess grandmaster. She is the two-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion (2012 and 2023), has won the Women's European Individual Chess Championship three times (2012, 2014, 2018), and has won the Russian Women's Championship five times (2011, 2013, 2014, 2021, 2022). She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012, 2014, at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and at the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017.
Gunina won the 2016 London Chess Classic Super Rapidplay Open in one of the best performances or victories for a woman at a top-level chess tournament, defeating several top 100 grandmasters along the way.[3]
- ^ "Vladimir Putin Congratulates Russian Women's Chess Team". Natalia Pogonina's website. 20 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ^ GM title application FIDE
- ^ Pein, Malcolm (24 December 2016). "London Chess Classic: Valentina Gunina wins Super Rapid". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 February 2017.