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Nataliya Buksa

Nataliya Buksa
Buksa in 2017
Full nameNataliya Ihorivna Buksa
CountryUkraine
Born (1996-11-06) November 6, 1996 (age 28)
Lviv, Ukraine
Title
FIDE rating2400 (December 2024)
Peak rating2437 (September 2018)

Nataliya Ihorivna Buksa (Ukrainian: Наталія Ігорівна Букса; born November 6, 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player.

Career

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.

Personal life

Buksa is married to Azerbaijani chess grandmaster Rauf Mamedov.[5]

References