Valeriya Gansvind Explained

Valeriya Gansvind
Full Name:	Valeriya I. Gansvind
Country:
Birth Date:	1965 11, df=yes
Birth Place:	Moscow Oblast, Russia
Woman FIDE Master
Rating:	2086 (February 2020)
Peakrating:	2314 (October 2002)
Fideid:	4109821

Valeriya I. Gansvind (also spelled Valeria, born 22 November 1965 in Moscow Oblast) is an Estonian chess player who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM).

Biography

Gansvind learned to play chess at age eleven. In 1983 she graduated from Moscow boarding sports school. In chess competitions she played for Estonia because her mother is from Tartu.^[1] In the Estonian Women's Chess Championship, Gansvind has won 2 gold (2006, 2009) and 2 silver medals (2005, 2008).^[2] ^[3]

She played for Estonia in Chess Olympiads:^[4]

In 2006, at third board in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin (+3 −3 =5);
In 2008, at second board in the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden (+6 −1 =4);
In 2010, at second board in the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk (+3 −4 =4).

Gansvind worked as a chess coach. She lives in Moscow and Canada, taking part in there a chess tournaments.^[5] Her ex-husband is chess grandmaster Sergey Kalinitschew.Valeriya's son Andrey Kalinichev is FIDE Master (FM) and has won Estonian Chess Championship silver medal in 2005.^[6]

Notes and References

Web site: GANSVIND, VALERIA . ESBL.ee . et . 2014-01-27 . 2014-02-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201181232/http://www.esbl.ee/biograafia/Valeria_Gansvind . dead.
Web site: EST-ch_(Women)_2006 . 365Chess.com . 2014-01-27 . 2014-02-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201183658/http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/EST-ch_(Women)_2006 . live.
Web site: Estonian Chess Championship . Maletaht.ee . et . 2014-01-27 . 2014-02-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201200314/http://www.maletaht.ee/home/article.php?id=625 . live.
Web site: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Valeria Gansvind . OlimpBase.org . 2014-01-27 . 2014-02-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202102259/http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/qymk2i0h.html . live.
Web site: Victoria Chess Festival 2009 . VictoriaChessClub.pbworks.com . 2014-01-27 . 2014-02-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140216130045/http://victoriachessclub.pbworks.com/w/page/11477360/Victoria%20Chess%20Festival%202009 . live.
Web site: FIDE Chess Profile: Kalinichev, Andrey . FIDE.com . 2014-01-27 . 2014-02-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202170046/http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=4148053 . live.