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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ihorivna and the family name is Buksa.

Nataliya Ihorivna Buksa (Ukrainian: Наталія Ігорівна Букса; born November 6, 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player.

Career

She won the Girls' World Junior Chess Championship in 2015.[1] By doing so she became a Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2017.

Nataliya Buksa won the Women's Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2018 in Kyiv.[2]

In 2018, she was awarded the International Master (IM) title by FIDE.[3]

She is ranked 5th best female player in Ukraine, and her highest rating was 2437 (in September 2018).[4]

In 2022 at the 44th Chess Olympiad she was part of the Ukrainian team that won the women's tournament.

Personal life

Buksa is married to Azerbaijani chess grandmaster Rauf Mamedov.[5]

References

  1. ^ FIDE World Junior U20 Championship (Girls) 2015
  2. ^ Ukraine Women`s Final - 2018
  3. ^ "Buksa, Nataliya FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  4. ^ "Nataliya Buksa chess games and profile". Chess DB.
  5. ^ ""Только с тобой". Рауф Мамедов спел Наталье Буксе на их свадьбе". chess-news.ru (in Russian). 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2018-12-26.

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