Ekaterina Kovalevskaya | |
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Kovalevskaya in 2007
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Country | Russia |
Born |
Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
17 April 1974
Title |
International Master Woman Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2418 (April 2017) |
Peak rating | 2507 (July 2001) |
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (Russian: Екатерина Ковалевская; born 17 April 1974 in Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian chess player with the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the Russian Women's Chess Championship in 1994 and 2000 and was the runner-up in the Women's World Chess Championship 2004. This latter achievement earned her the title of International Master.
Kovalevskaya won the silver medal at the Women's European Individual Chess Championship in 2000 and 2001.
She played for the Russian national team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, at the Women's World Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009 and at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2005 and 2007.