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Masha Klinova

Masha Klinova is an Israeli chess player and Woman Grandmaster who won the Israeli Women's Chess Championship in 1992 and 2010.

born 1968Two Israeli women's chess titlesPlaying for Israel at Chess OlympiadsInternational chess arbiter and trainer

Born: 18 November 1968, Odesa
Occupation: chess player

Masha Klinova was born in 1968 in Odesa

Masha Klinova, born Jarmolinskaya, was born on 18 November 1968 in Odesa, in the Soviet Union. She moved to Israel in 1992.

She won the Israeli Women's Chess Championship in 1992 and again in 2010. She also won Women's World Championship zonal tournaments in Zagreb in 1993 and in Dresden in 1998. In 2000 she played in the Women's World Chess Championship and lost in the first round to Qin Kanying.

Klinova played for Israel's women's team at many Chess Olympiads and European Team Chess Championships, often at first board. In 2013 in Warsaw she won the only Israeli game in the team's victory over Russia. She received the Woman Grandmaster title in 1996 and the International Master title in 2002.

She also works as a trainer and arbiter, holding the FIDE Trainer title from 2011 and the International Arbiter title from 2014. In 2024 she won the women's 50 and over category of the World Senior Championship. After many years in Israel, she moved back to Odesa.