Maria Manakova

Maria Manakova (born 1 March 1974) is a Woman Grandmaster of chess, born in Russia. She lived in Serbia for several years and played for the Yugoslav women's chess team. Manakova was first board reserve on the silver medal winning Yugoslav team at the European Team Championship in Batumi 1999, although she did not play any games.^[1]

Her highest Elo rating ever was 2395. As of May 2011, her rating is 2303. She posed nude for the Russian men's magazine Speed in 2004.^[2]

References

1. ^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "European Women's Team Chess Championship: Maria Manakova". OlimpBase. http://www.olimpbase.org/playersu/c0u68syf.html. Retrieved 2009-07-05. 
2. ^ "Maria Manakova in Speed". ChessBase News. 2004-08-02. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1826. Retrieved 2009-08-19. 

External links

• FIDE rating card for Maria Manakova
• Maria Manakova player profile at ChessGames.com
• Maria Manakova at 365Chess.com
• The Sunday Times: World Chess Beauty Contest - "Soft-Pawn" causes flap
• Statistics at ChessWorld.net

Persondata
Name	Manakova, Maria
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1974-03-01
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death