Nova Gorica is a town in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy. It is the seat of the Municipality of Nova Gorica. Nova Gorica is a planned town, built according to the principles of modernist architecture after 1947, when the Paris Peace Treaty established a new border between Yugoslavia and Italy, leaving nearby Gorizia outside the borders of Yugoslavia and thus cutting off the Soča Valley, the Vipava Valley, the Gorizia Hills and the northwestern Karst Plateau from their traditional regional urban centre. Since 1948, Nova Gorica has replaced Gorizia as the principal urban center of the Gorizia region, as the northern part of the Slovenian Littoral has been traditionally called.
Zhu Chen is a Chinese-born Qatari chess Grandmaster. In 1999, she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and China's 13th Grandmaster. In 2006, she obtained Qatari citizenship and since then has played for Qatar.
Anna Olehivna Muzychuk is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been ranked as high as No. 197 in the world, and No. 2 among women. Muzychuk is a three-time world champion in fast chess, having won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2014 and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016. In classical chess, she was the 2017 Women's World Championship runner-up.
Jana Bellin is a British, formerly Czechoslovak chess player. She was awarded the Woman International Master chess title in 1969 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1982.
Ana Srebrnič is a Slovene chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 2006.
Darja Kapš is a Slovene chess player with the title of Woman Grandmaster.
Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013.
Karmen Mar is a Slovenian chess player, Woman International Master.
Jana Jacková is a Czech chess player. She played for the Czech team in following Chess Olympiads: Elista 1998, Istanbul 2000, Bled 2002, Calvià 2004, Turin 2006 and Dresden 2008. In 2002 and in 2006 the team came to the tenth place in the final ranking.
Nova Gorica Grammar School or Gimnazija Nova Gorica, is a coeducational secondary school in western Slovenia. Located in Nova Gorica, the school is for students aged between 15 and 19. It has been certified as one of the top European Parliament Ambassador Schools in the country.
Marsel Efroimski is an Israeli chess player. She was awarded the title of International Master (IM) by FIDE in 2021.
Indira Bajt is a Kazakhstani-Slovenian woman chess player. Bajt is a Woman FIDE Master (WFM) with a peak Elo rating of 2225. She was a member of Slovenia women's team at the 39th Chess Olympiad.
Luka Lenič is a Slovenian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He is the top ranked chess player of his country. Lenič won the under-14 division of the World Youth Chess Championships in Heraklion in 2002. He won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013. Lenič has played for the Slovenian national team in the Chess Olympiad, European Team Chess Championship, Mitropa Cup and European Youth Team Championship. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2017.
Sue Yuchan Maroroa Jones was a New Zealand-English chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM). She represented New Zealand in five Chess Olympiads and England at the 2014 Chess Olympiad.
Elena Sedina is a Ukrainian-Italian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She has won the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship, the Australian Open Chess Championship, and is a Chess Olympiad and Mitropa Cup gold medalist.
Laura Unuk is a Slovenian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. She has been twice world girls' champion in her age category, and was the Slovenian women's champion in 2013. Unuk is the top female player of Slovenia.
Krivec is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jana Schneider is a German chess player. She was awarded the title of FIDE Master in 2016.
Olena Martynkova is a Ukrainian and Lithuanian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master. She is two-times winner of Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship. She is twice bronze medalist of Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship.
Jordanka Belić is a Serbian and German chess Woman grandmaster who won Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship and Open German Women's Championship in 1990.
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