Waltraud Nowarra ( Schameitat, 14 November 1940 – 27 October 2007) was a German

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player who held the title of

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(WIM, 1966). She was a seven-time winner the East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1968).

Biography

In the 1960s, Nowarra was one of the leading chess players in the

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. She won the East Germany Women's Chess Championships seven times: 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, 1968 and 1968, and also won silver (1957) and two bronze (1959, 1973) medals. In 1966, Waltraud Nowarra won Women's World Chess Championship Zonal Tournament. In 1967, she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament in

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and taken 10th place. In 1970, she shared with

Valentina Borisenko Valentina Mikhaylovna Borisenko (née Belova; ; Cherepovets, 28 January 1920 – Saint Petersburg, 6 March 1993) was a Soviet chess player. She was a five-time winner of the Women's Soviet Championship: 1945, 1955, 1957, 1960, and 1961 (a recor ...

first place in the International Women's Chess tournament in Halle, but in 1972 she won the first place in the International Women's Chess tournament in

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. Nowarra played for East Germany in the

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s: * In 1963, at second board in the 2nd Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+6, =2, -2) and won the team bronze medal and the individual bronze medal, * In 1966, at second board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+1, =2, -3) and won the team bronze medal, * In 1969, at first board in the 4th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+5, =3, -2), * In 1972, at first board in the 5th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+2, =0, -4). In 1966, she was awarded the FIDE

(WIM) title.

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