Nataliya Buksa

Ukrainian chess player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroUkrainian chess player
PlacesUkraine
isChess player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth6 November 1996, Lviv, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Ukraine
Age28 years
Star signScorpio
The details

Biography

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).

Personal life

Buksa is married to Azerbaijani chess grandmaster Rauf Mamedov.

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