Alina Kashlinskaya

In 2003, Kashlinskaya took the silver medal at the European Youth Chess Championships in the Girls U10 category.[http://chess-results.com/tnr1441.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES&wi=984 European Youth Championship Girls - U10]. chess-results.com.

In August 2010, she was part of the Russian women's team in the 7th China-Russia Match, held with the Scheveningen system.[http://en.chessbase.com/post/7th-china-ruia-match-ruian-women-save-the-day 7th China-Russia Match] ChessBase 05.08.2010 Kashlinskaya took part in the women's section of the 39th Chess Olympiad playing for Russia B team. She won an individual silver medal playing on board five.[http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/4784-world-chess-olympiad-2010.html "Ukraine and Russia 1 Win Gold at the World Chess Olympiad 2010"]. FIDE. 20-09-2010.

In 2011, Kashlinskaya took silver at the World Youth Chess Championships in the Girls U18 section.[http://chess-results.com/tnr58158.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&flag=30&wi=821 World Youth Chess Championship - U 18 Girls]. chess-results.com. The following year, she placed second at the World University Chess Championship in the women's section.[http://chess-results.com/tnr79463.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&wi=821 World University Chess Championship 2012 - Women]. chess-results.com. Later that year, in December, she took part in the 5th "Snowdrops vs Old Hands" - Czech Coal Match in Poděbrady, held with the double Scheveningen format, that opposed a team of young female players ("Snowdrops") made up of Valentina Gunina, Tania Sachdev, Kashlinskaya and Kristýna Havlíková to veteran Grandmasters ("Old Hands") Vlastimil Hort, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Fridrik Olafsson and Oleg Romanishin.{{cite web|url=http://scacchi.chess.com/news/snowdrops-versus-old-hands-2012-3440|title=Snowdrops Versus Old Hands 2012|website=chess.com|date=2012-12-12|accessdate=2015-08-26}} Kashlinskaya scored 3½/8 points.{{cite web|url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/old-hands-catch-snowdrops-and-win-podebrady-17-15|title=Old Hands catch Snowdrops and win Podebrady 17:15|website=ChessBase|date=2012-12-18|accessdate=2015-08-26}}

In 2013, she won the Russian Junior Girls Championship[http://www.chessdom.com/artemiev-and-kashlinskaya-are-2013-russian-junior-champions/ "Artemiev and Kashlinskaya are 2013 Russian Junior champions"]. Chessdom. 25-04-2013. and took the bronze medal in the World Junior Girls Championship.[https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7443-fide-world-junior-chess-championships-2013-round-9.html World Junior Chess Championships 2013 Concluded] FIDE In the same year, Kashlinskaya participated in the 6th "Snowdrops vs Old Hands" match. She scored 5/8 points, helping her team "Snowdrops" (Viktorija Cmilyte, Kashlinskaya, Mariya Muzychuk, Nastassia Ziaziulkina) to defeat the "Old Hands" (Josif Dorfman, Boris Gulko, Borislav Ivkov, Wolfgang Uhlmann) with the overall score of 17½-14½. Kashlinskaya was the top scorer of the whole event.{{cite web|url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/snowdrops-defeat-old-hands-by-17-5-14-5|title= Snowdrops defeat Old Hands by 17.5:14.5|publisher=ChessBase|author=David Navara|date=10 December 2013|accessdate=26 August 2015}}

In March 2015, Kashlinskaya competed in the Women's World Chess Championship for the first time. She was knocked out in the first round by Shen Yang. Two months later, Kashlinskaya took bronze at the Women's European Individual Championship in Chakvi.[http://chess-results.com/tnr164130.aspx?lan=16&art=1&rd=11&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984 16th European Individual Women's Chess Championship] Chess-Results In July, she took part in the 9th China-Russia Match and scored 2½/5, the best result among the Russians in the women's section.[http://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/russia_china_summit_loss/ Russia Loses the Match to China] Russian Chess Federation 21.07.2015 In September, Kashlinskaya won the 5th Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial – Women Grandmaster tournament in Wrocław.[http://wgmradzikowska.pl/?page_id=1520 5th Women International Chess Memorial of Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919215758/http://wgmradzikowska.pl/?page_id=1520 |date=2015-09-19 }} Official website

In October 2018, Kashlinskaya won the top women's prize (£7,000) at the Chess.com Isle of Man International, while her husband Wojtaszek won the main prize in the same tournament.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-com-isle-of-man-wojtaszek-beats-naiditsch-in-armageddon-for-title|last=Klein|first=Mike|title=Chess.com Isle Of Man: Wojtaszek Beats Naiditsch In Armageddon For Title|date=2018-10-29|website=Chess|publisher=Chess.com|access-date=2020-05-22}}

In April 2019, she won the European Women's Individual Championship in Antalya edging out Marie Sebag, Elisabeth Pähtz, Inna Gaponenko and Antoaneta Stefanova on tiebreak score.{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/european-women-championship-2019-round-11|last=Peterson|first=Macauley|title=European Women's Ch: Kashlinskaya tops five-way tie|date=2019-04-22|website=Chess News|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=2019-04-22}} In October, Kashlinskaya played on the reserve board for the gold winning Russian team at the European Women's Team Chess Championship 2019 in Batumi.

Since 23 May 2022, she has represented Poland instead of Russia. In 2022 she participated with the Polish women's team in the 44th Chess Olympiad, where the team took the sixth place. In 2023 in Warsaw she won bronze medal in Polish Women's Chess Championship.[http://www.szachypolskie.pl/mistrzostwa-polski-kobiet-w-szachach-2023/ Mistrzostwa Polski Kobiet w Szachach 2023] In May 2024, in Rzeszów she shared 1st - 2nd place in Polish Women's Chess Championship and won in play-off to Aleksandra Maltsevskaya - 1,5:0,5 and won gold medal.[http://www.szachypolskie.pl/mistrzostwa-polski-kobiet-w-szachach-2024/ 76. Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski Kobiet w Szachach]

In August 2024, Kashlinskaya won the Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix, securing her second GM Norm in the process.{{cite web|url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/alina-kashlinskaya-winner-2024-fide-womens-grand-prix-tbilisi|title=Kashlinskaya Wins Tbilisi Grand Prix, Earns 2nd GM Norm|date=24 August 2024 |publisher=chess.com|accessdate=24 August 2024}}

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Kashlinskaya is married to Radosław Wojtaszek, a Polish Grandmaster.{{cite web|url=http://chess-news.ru/node/19505|title=Another Chess Family Will Be Born Today in Moscow|date=2015-09-07|website=chess-news.ru|accessdate=10 July 2015|archive-date=2021-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419094559/http://chess-news.ru/node/19505|url-status=dead}} She graduated from the Russian State Social University.[http://www.chessdom.com/interview-with-alina-kashlinskaya/ "Interview with Alina Kashlinskaya"]. Chessdom. 2018-01-28.

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