IMAlina Bivol

Alina Bivol was born in Dmitrov, Russia, in 1996. She began building her title credentials as a teenager, earning a Woman International Master norm in Kimry in 2009. Further norms in Kostroma and at the 2012 Chigorin Memorial led to the title in 2013. In 2015, she won the Russian girls' under-twenty-one championship. Later that year, she took silver at the World Junior Girls' Championship, finishing half a point behind Nataliya Buksa. She became a Woman Grandmaster in 2016 and an International Master in 2021.