Tamāra Vilerte

Tamāra Vilerte
Vilerte in Bad Ragaz, 2013
CountryLatvia
Born (1954-03-05) 5 March 1954 (age 70)
Omsk, Russia
TitleWoman Grandmaster (2008)
Women's World ChampionWomen World Senior Champion, 2008
Peak rating2238 (January 2009)

Tamāra Vilerte (born 5 March 1954 in Omsk), also known as Tamāra Rudovska, is a Latvian chess player who won the World Senior Women Chess Championship in 2008 (Bad Zwischenahn, Germany)[1] and holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. In 2008, she took second place in European Senior Women Chess Championship in Davos.[2] Vilerte won the Latvian Girl Championship in 1971 and 1972. In 1972 she shared third through seventh place at the Soviet Junior Championship.[3] She also shared the Latvian Chess Championship for women in 1973.

Vilerte graduated from the Daugavpils Pedagogical Institute. She is a biology teacher by profession but works as a chess trainer. Her brother Jānis Vilerts (1943–2001) was director at the Kuldiga Chess School.

References

  1. ^ "World Senior Championship 2008". Seniorenschach.de. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  2. ^ "European Senior Championship 2008". Chess-Results.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  3. ^ "Soviet Junior Championship 1972". Narod.ru. Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  • Žuravļevs, N.; Dulbergs, I.; Kuzmičovs, G. (1980) (in Latvian), Latvijas šahistu jaunrade, Riga: Avots. pp. 95 – 96


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