Vera Nebolsina
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Vera Nebolsina (Template:Langx; born 16 December 1989 in Seversk) is a Russian professional chess player. She earned the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at age 17 in 2007.[1]
Early life
Nebolsina was born in Seversk near Tomsk in western Siberia to Chess Master Valery Nebolsin and Tatiana; the family also lived in Novosibirsk.[2][1][3] Her mother began teaching her basic chess moves when Nebolsina was four and introduced her to other board games, such as draughts and Go.[3] Her father coached her to further develop her chess skills and by age six, she was playing in formal tournaments, oftentimes in categories above her age group.[3][4]
Chess career
At age seven, Nebolsina won the Russian Girls Under 8 Championship and the World Youth Championship for girls under 10 in Oropesa del Mar at eight years old.[3] By age twelve, she was playing the Russian Women's 1st League and in 2004 she earned the title Woman International Master.[5][6] In 2007, when she was just seventeen, she won the World Junior Championship for Girls (under 20) at Yerevan, which qualified her for the title of Woman Grandmaster.[7][8][1] The highest ranking of her career thus far came in January 2011, when she was ranked #2389 in the world,[8] and her highest junior ranking was #12 among the world's top 20 girl players.[9] Nebolsina describes herself as a Template:Chessgloss who can also be a tactician.[10] In 2016, she won the U.S. Women's Open Chess Championship.[11]
Playing style
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Personal life
Nebolsina is a moral vegetarian.[13] As of September 2020, she lives with her husband Gata Kamsky in France, where she is enrolled at university.[14][15] In 2011, she was attending Novosibirsk State Technical University as an International Relations/Oriental Studies student and spent two years studying in China at Qingdao University.[1][16] She also attended Moscow State University, where she studied English and Chinese.[10] She knows Chinese[17] and French[13] and is fluent in Russian and English.[16] In 2015, she spoke at a TED (conference)#TEDx in her hometown of Novosibirsk.[18]
References
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External links
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Tomsk
- Chess Woman Grandmasters
- World Youth Chess Champions
- World Junior Chess Champions
- Russian female chess players
- Russian chess players
- French female chess players
- French chess players
- Novosibirsk State Technical University alumni
- Qingdao University alumni
- Moscow State University alumni
- 21st-century Russian sportswomen