Valentina Gunina

Valentina GuninaValentina Evgenyevna Gunina (1989-) is a Russian chess Grandmaster. She won the European Women’s Individual Championship in 2012, 2014 and 2018.

Kazan Chess Tournament

The FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament

Right now in Kazan, eight women are competing to become the challenger to the current Women’s World Chess Champion, Ju Wenjun. More 🡢
Alina Markowski

U.S. Senior Women’s Championship?

Although most tournaments include men (and boys), there are occasional all-girls tournaments, female-only opens, and women’s invitational tournaments. The most prestigious invitational women’s tournaments held annually in the U.S. are the U.S. Women’s Chess Championship and the Cairns Cup, won its inaugural year (2019) by GM Valentina Gunina, age 29. The oldest, and lowest-rated, player in the 2019 Cairns Cup field was 40-year-old IM Anna Zatonskih. More 🡢