# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niina-koskela
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:51:49.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/niina-koskela"
name: "Niina Koskela"
slug: "niina-koskela"
description: "Niina Koskela, married from 2004 to 2009 as Niina Sammalvuo, is a Finnish chess player. In 2006, she was the first Finnish woman to receive the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a three-time winner of the Finnish Women's Chess Championship. Since 2012, she has played for Norway."
tagline: "Norwegian-Finnish chess player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Niina_Koskela_Rilton_Cup_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1971-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.31
  momentum:             3
  historical:           7.668214666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niina_Koskela"
    title: "Niina Koskela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niina_Koskela"
    title: "Niina Koskela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niina_Koskela"
    title: "Niina Koskela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niina_Koskela"
    title: "Niina Koskela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niina_Koskela"
    title: "Niina Koskela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%ABna_Koskela"
    title: "Nīna Koskela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niina_Koskela"
    title: "Niina Koskela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niina_Koskela"
    title: "Niina Koskela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Коскела, Ниина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11792013"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump