Adriana Nikolova

Adriana Nikolova

Nikolova competing in the Alois Nagler Memorial, Zürich, Switzerland, 2009
Full name Adriana Nikolova (Адриана Николова)
Country  Bulgaria
Born (1988-11-08) November 8, 1988
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Title Woman Grandmaster (2011)
FIDE rating 2296 (January 2012 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2389 (November 2009)

Adriana Nikolova (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Адриана Николова; born November 8, 1988 in Stara Zagora) is a Bulgarian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is Bulgaria's newest WGM and her chess club team is Lokomotiv 2000 from Plovdiv,[1] with which she has won three national championships.[2]

In November 2008, Nikolova earned the title of Woman International Master (WIM).[3] She has so far represented her country in six major chess championships - the European Team Chess Championship, which was held in Novi Sad in 2009 (scoring 1.5/7 on Board 2),[4] the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk (achieving 5/9 on Board 3),[5] the 2011 European Team Chess Championship hosted at the Porto Carras resort in Greece (managing 4.5/7 on Board 4),[6] the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (finishing with 5/9 points on Board 3),[7] the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø (securing 6/9 points on Board 3),[8] as well as the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku (her final score being 6/10 on Board 3).[9]

In July 2011, she received a gold medal and an official certificate to honour her achievement in becoming a woman grandmaster.[10] Nikolova also won the 2011 edition of the Bulgarian Women Chess Championship (scoring 9/11).

Nikolova married chess arbiter Dimitar Iliev in 2011.[11]

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