Tamāra Vilerte
Latvian chess player (born 1954)
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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 in Bad Ragaz, 2013 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 March 1954 |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Latvia |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (2008) |
| Women World Senior Champion, 2008 | |
| Peak rating | 2238 (January 2009) |
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.
