Nataliya Buksa
Ukrainian chess player
Intro | Ukrainian chess player | |
Places | Ukraine | |
is | Chess player | |
Work field | Sports | |
Gender |
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Birth | 6 November 1996, Lviv, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Ukraine | |
Age | 28 years | |
Star sign | Scorpio |
Nataliya Buksa (Ukrainian: Наталія Ігорівна Букса; born November 6 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player.
She won the Girls' World Junior Chess Championship in 2015. By doing so she became a woman grandmaster, and qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2017.
Nataliya Buksa won the Women's Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2018 in Kyiv.
In 2018, she was awarded the International Master title by FIDE.
She is ranked 5th best female player in Ukraine, and her highest rating was 2437 (in September 2018).
Buksa is married to Azerbaijani chess grandmaster Rauf Mamedov.