IMPolina Shuvalova

Polina Shuvalova developed in Moscow's chess-school system. She won the European girls' under-12 championship in 2013 and the Moscow women's championship in 2016. Her youth results also included world under-16 bronze in 2016 and silver in 2017. In 2017, she won the Russian girls' under-21 championship and made her debut in the senior national Superfinal. She became world girls' under-18 champion in 2018 and defended the title in Mumbai in 2019. Later that same month, she won the World Junior Girls Championship in New Delhi with an unbeaten 9½/11. FIDE awarded her the Woman Grandmaster title in 2019 and the International Master title in 2020. Playing first board, she helped Moscow win the 2020 Russian Women's Team Championship. That December, she tied Aleksandra Goryachkina for first in the Russian women's Superfinal, finishing runner-up after their rapid playoff. She defeated Levy Rozman in the final of the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship, becoming the event's first female winner.