Marina Sheremetieva is Moldova chess trainer Vyacheslav Chebanenko pupil. She graduated from the Moldova State University. Marina Sheremetieva four times won the Moldovan Women's Chess Championships: 1978, 1987, 1988 and 1992. In 1987, in Krasnodar she won the USSR Trade Union Women's Chess Championship. Marina Sheremetieva twice participated in the USSR Women's Chess Championship finals (1988, 1989), where achieved the best result in 1989 when she shared 8th-10th place. Three times Marina Sheremetieva represented Moldovan team at the Soviet Team Chess Championship (1983, 1985, 1991). In 1993, she won second prize in Bucharest International Women's Chess tournament. In 1995, Marina Sheremetieva participated in Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in Chişinău where ranked 27th place.