Adriana Nikolova

Who is Adriana Nikolova?

Adriana Nikolova is a Bulgarian chess Woman Grandmaster. She is presently Bulgaria's newest WGM and her current chess club team is Lokomotiv 2000 from Plovdiv, with which she has won three national championships.

In November 2008, Nikolova earned the title of Woman International Master. She has so far represented her country in four major chess championships - the European Team Chess Championship, which was held in Novi Sad in 2009, the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, the 2011 European Team Chess Championship hosted within the Porto Carras resort in Greece, as well as the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. In July 2011, she received a gold medal and an official certificate to honour her achievement in becoming a grandmaster. Nikolova also won the last edition of the Bulgarian Women Chess Championship 2011. Nikolova married chess arbiter Dimitar Iliev in 2011.