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Tatiana Zatulovskaya

Tatiana Zatulovskaya was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player who won the Soviet women's championship and the world women's senior championship twice.

1935 to 2017Soviet women's chess championTwo world women's senior titlesWoman Grandmaster title

Born: 8 December 1935, Baku
Died: 2 July 2017, Ashkelon
Occupation: chess player
Education: Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University

Tatiana Zatulovskaya was born in 1935 in Baku

Tatiana Zatulovskaya was born in Baku on 8 December 1935. She came from a Jewish family. She started playing chess after the age of 14, which was considered a late start.

She won the Soviet women's championship in 1962 and shared first place in 1960 and 1963. She played for the USSR at the Women's Chess Olympiad in 1963 and 1966, and the team won gold both times. FIDE gave her the title Woman International Master in 1961 and Woman Grandmaster in 1976.

She often qualified for the Interzonal and Candidates tournaments of the Women's World Chess Championship. She won the Women's Seniors World Championship in 1993 with 10 points out of 11, and won it again in 1997. She also worked as a geological engineer.

In 2000 she moved to Israel, lived in Ashkelon and played for a club in Ashdod. She represented Israel at the 2002 Women's Chess Olympiad. She drowned at the Ashkelon beach on 2 July 2017 and was buried in Ashkelon.