Nataliya Buksa | |
Full Name: | Nataliya Ihorivna Buksa |
Country: | Ukraine |
Birth Date: | 6 November 1996 |
Birth Place: | Lviv, Ukraine |
Peakrating: | 2437 (September 2018) |
Fideid: | 14123622 |
Nataliya Ihorivna Buksa (Ukrainian: Наталія Ігорівна Букса; born November 6, 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player.
She won the Girls' World Junior Chess Championship in 2015.[1] By doing so she became a Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2017.
Nataliya Buksa won the Women's Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2018 in Kyiv.[2]
In 2018, she was awarded the International Master (IM) title by FIDE.[3]
She is ranked 5th best female player in Ukraine, and her highest rating was 2437 (in September 2018).[4]
In 2022 at the 44th Chess Olympiad she was part of the Ukrainian team that won the women's tournament.
Buksa is married to Azerbaijani chess grandmaster Rauf Mamedov.[5]