Zala Urh


Zala Urh is a Slovenian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which she earned in 2025.
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Chess career

Urh finished sixth at the World Junior Chess Championship in 2019. In 2022, Urh earned the Slovenian national junior championship title, and ended fourth at the World Junior Chess Championship that year.
She won the Mediterranean Flower Chess Tournament in 2024. That year she also represented Slovenia in the 45th Chess Olympiad, finishing on 6/11.
Urh qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2025, where she was defeated 2.5/1.5 by Inna Gaponenko in the first round.