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Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya

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Soviet-born American chess player

United StatesLived 1957 to 2012 · aged 55
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Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya was a Soviet-born American chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977.

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Akhmilovskaya, Gaprindashvili, and Alexandria at Chess Olympiad 1986Akhmilovskaya, Gaprindashvili, and Alexandria at Chess Olympiad 1986

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Order of the Badge of Honour
Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR

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Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya was a Soviet-born American chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977. She won the Women Candidates' tournament in 1986 and later in the same year played a match against Maia Chiburdanidze in Sofia for the Women's World Championship title, but lost by 8½-5½.

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United States
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Lived 1957 to 2012 · aged 55
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