Israeli chess player
Masha Klinova (née Jarmolinskaya, born 18 November 1968) is an Israeli chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1996). She is a two-timeswinner of Israeli Women's Chess Championship (1992, 2010).
Biography.
Klinova was born in Soviet Union, but since 1992 moved to Israel. She twice won Israeli Women's Chess Championships: in 1992 and in 2010. Also she twice won Women's World Chess Championship Zonal tournaments: in 1993, in Zagreb and in 1998, in Dresden (together with Ela Pitam). In 2000, Klinova participated in Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Qin Kanying.
She is winner of many international chess tournaments, including the shared first place with Ilze Rubene in 1999, in Stockholm "Scandics Hotels" tournament, shared the first place in 2001, in Odessa, won in Simferopol, in 2003, won in Sevastopol, in 2005, but in 2008 won the second place in the tournament in Kherson.
Klinova played for Israel in the Women's Chess Olympiads:
She played for Israel in the European Team Chess Championships:
Klinova received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 1996 and the FIDE International Master (IM) title in 2002. She is also an FIDE Trainer (2011), FIDE Arbiter (2012), and International Arbiter (2014).
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