Maria Albuleț (10 June 1932 – 11 January 2005), also Maria Pogorevici and Maria Albuleț-Pogorevici, was a Romanian doctor and chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) since 1985. She was a three-time winner of the Romanian Women's Chess Championship (1951, 1955, 1956).
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Born | (1932-06-10)June 10, 1932 Brăila, Romania |
Died | January 17, 2005(2005-01-17) (aged 72) Ploiești, Romania |
Title | Woman Grandmaster (1985) |
FIDE rating | 2100 (January 1991) |
Peak rating | 2120 (July 1973) |
In the 1950s she became one of the leading Romanian women chess players. She won six medals in the Romanian Women's Chess Championship: three gold (1951, 1955, 1956), two silver (1953, 1972) and bronze (1958).[1] In 1959, she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament in Plovdiv, where she shared 12th-13th place.[2]
Albuleț played for Romania in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[3]
In 1957, she was awarded the FIDE International Women Master (WIM) title, and in 1985 she received the honorary title of FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Albuleț was slso known as a correspondence chess player. She took part in the Women's Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1974-1979), where the Romanian team took 6th place.[4]
Her daughter Marina Makropoulou is also a Woman Grandmaster (since 1981), who represents Greece.
An annual chess tournament is held in her memory in Braila, Romania.