Maria Albuleț
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). Biography. 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). In 1959, she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates  Tournament in Plovdiv, where she shared 12th-13th place. Albuleț played for Romania in the Women's Chess Olympiads: 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. 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. Maria Albuleț Maria