Alisa Galliamova

Alisa Galliamova
Alisa Galliamova, 1992
Full name	Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova Алиса Михайловна Галлямова
Country	Soviet Union Ukraine Russia
Born	(1972-01-18) 18 January 1972 (age 45) Kazan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title	International Master Woman Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2444 (March 2017)
Peak rating	2554 (January 2001)

Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova (Russian: Алиса Михайловна Галлямова, Tatar: Cyrillic Алисә Михаил кызы Галләмова, Latin Alisä Mixail qızı Ğällämova; born 18 January 1972 in Kazan) is a Russian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is twice runner-up at the Women's World Chess Championship, in 1999 and 2006, and three-time Russian women's champion (1997, 2009, 2010). She was known as "Alisa Galliamova-Ivanchuk" from 1993 to 2001.

She played for the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2010 Women's Chess Olympiad and for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the 1992 Women's European Team Chess Championship.

Galliamova won the World Under-16 Girls' Championship in 1987 and 1988. In 1988 she also won the World Junior Girls Championship.

In December 1997, she won the Candidates Tournament for the Women's World Chess Championship held in Groningen, Netherlands. She was scheduled to play a match with Xie Jun, who finished second, in August, 1998 and the winner of that match was supposed to play a match in November 1998 with Zsuzsa Polgar for the Women's World Chess Championship.