Anna Akhsharumova
Anna Akhsharumova (Russian: Анна Марковна Ахшарумова; born 9 January 1957, Moscow) is a Woman Grandmaster of chess.
Chess career
She won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1976 and 1984, and won the 1987 U.S. Women's Chess Championship with a perfect score.
She played for the U.S. in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 1988, 1990 and 1996.[1]
Her best Elo rating was 2400 in 1989.
Personal life
She is married to chess grandmaster Boris Gulko. Akhsharumova and her husband became famous in the late-1970s as Soviet Refuseniks. They were finally allowed to leave the Soviet Union and immigrate to the United States in 1986.
References
- "Women's Chess Olympiads: Anna Akhsharumova". Olimpbase.org. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
External links
- Anna Akhsharumova rating card at FIDE
- Anna Akhsharumova player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Anna M Akhsharumova chess games at 365Chess.com
- U.S. Women's Chess Champions at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-06-13)
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