Marta Litinskaya-Shul
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Marta Litynska is a Ukrainian
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 chess
Chess
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 master.

Born Marta Shul, she was Soviet Women’s Champion
Women's Soviet Chess Championship
The Women's Soviet Chess Championship was played in the Soviet Union from 1927 through 1989 to determine the women's chess national champion.-List of winners:Winners of more titles* 5 titles : Valentina Borisenko, Nona Gaprindashvili...

 in 1972, and Sub-Champion in 1971, 1973, and 1974. She played in 2nd Interzonal
Interzonal
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 Tournament at Menorca 1973 where tied for 2nd–5th places. In 1974, she lost a semifinal match to Nana Alexandria
Nana Alexandria
Nana Alexandria is a Georgian chess Woman Grandmaster and International Arbiter . She was the challenger in two matches for the Women's World Chess Championship....

 in Riga
Riga
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.

Litinskaya won World Senior Chess Championship
World Senior Chess Championship
The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation.Participants must have reached 60 years old on 1 January of the year of the event...

 at Naumburg 2002.

Awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1972 and the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 1976.

On the April 2009 FIDE list her Elo rating is 2326.

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