Olga Stjazhkina


Olga Mikhailovna Stjazhkina, née Florov, is a Russian chess player who received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster in 1994.

Biography

Olga Stjazhkina is Saint Petersburg chess school graduate. She five times won Saint Petersburg City Women's Chess Championship. Olga Stjazhkina twice won Russian Women's Team Chess Championships.
In 2000, Olga Stjazhkina participated in Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Wang Lei.
In 1994, she received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster title. In 2015, she became a FIDE Arbiter.
Her daughter Anna also is chess master, winner of World Youth Chess Championships and European Youth Chess Championships.