Valentina Kozlovskaya

Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya was a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 1976.

Chess career

Kozlovskaya won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1965. She was a member of the victorious Soviet team at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Havana 1966. She came second in the 1967 Women's Candidates Tournament. In the same year she placed second to women's world champion Nona Gaprindashvili in a women's international tournament at Kiev. In 1973 Kozlovskaya won the Women's Interzonal tournament and the next year, she lost the Candidates semifinal match to Irina Levitina. In 1976 Kozlovskaya won the RSFSR women's championship and in 1979, she shared first place with Ludmila Saunina. Kozlovskaya won the Women's World Senior Championship in 1996. In 2014, she won the European Senior Championship in the women's 65+ division, ahead of Nona Gaprindashvili.

Personal life and death

Kozlovskaya was a biochemist by profession. She was married to Grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky. Kozlovskaya died on 22 December 2025 at the age of 87.