Tatiana Shumiakina

Tatiana Shumiakina (Russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Шумякина; born 4 October 1965) is a Russian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1994).

Tatiana Shumiakina
Shumiakina in 2007
Country Soviet Union
 Russia
Born (1965-10-04) 4 October 1965
Chelyabinsk, Russia
TitleWoman Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating2325 (January 2010)
Peak rating2376 (October 2000)

Chess career

In 1990 Shumiakina won a bronze medal in USSR Women's Chess Championship. In 2000 she won Russia Women's Chess Cup. Won multiple international women's chess tournaments: Prešov (1988), Chelyabinsk (1990), Timișoara (1994) Bucharest (1994, together with Elena-Luminiţa Cosma).[1]

Shumiakina twice participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments where in 1993 in Jakarta and in 1995 in Chişinău she ranked 22nd place.[2][3] In 2001 Tatiana Shumiakina participated in Women's World Chess Championship 2001 by knock-out and in the first round lost to Elina Danielian.[4]

Shumiakina played for Russia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[5]

In 1989, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title five year later.

Shumiakina graduated from the Chelyabinsk State Institute of Physical Culture. She works as a chess trainer in Chelyabinsk children and youth sports school.[6]

References

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