Leya Garifullina

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Leya Garifullina
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Leya Garifullina at the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023
Country Russia (until 2022)
FIDE (since 2022)
Born (2004-11-05) 5 November 2004 (age 20)
Title International Master (2022)
Woman Grandmaster (2020)
FIDE   rating 2450 (July 2025)
Peak rating 2467 (May 2025)

Leya Garifullina (born 5 November 2004) is a Russian chess player who holds the titles International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). [1]

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Chess career

She won the Girls Under-16 World Championship in 2019 in Bombay with 8.5 points out of 11. [2] She tied for third in the Russian Women's Chess championship in December 2020. [3]

She qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2021, where she beat Zenia Corrales Jiménez in the first round, upset Olga Girya in the second round, and was defeated by Polina Shuvalova in the third round. [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Garifullina, Leya". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  2. ↑ "Mumbai 2019 - 37° World Championship u16 (girls)". www.brasilbase.pro.br. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  3. ↑ "Nepomniachtchi and Goryachkina are the 2020 Russian champions". Chess News. 2020-12-17. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  4. ↑ "FIDE World Cup 2.2: Krasenkow shocks Alekseenko". chess24.com. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  5. ↑ "Tournament tree — FIDE World Cup 2021". worldcup-results.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-07-18.


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