Ljuba Kristol

{{Short description|Israeli chess player}}

{{Infobox chess biography

| name = Ljuba Kristol

| image = Luba Kristol 1980 Malta.jpg

| caption = Kristol at Chess Olympiad, Malta, 1980

| full_name = Ljuba Danielovna Kristol

| country = Israel

| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|May 26, 1944}}

| birth_place = Leningrad, Russia

| title = {{unbulleted list|class=nowrap

| ICCF Lady Grandmaster (1990)

| FIDE Woman International Master

}}

| rating = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/2801035/chart 2233] (October 2000)

| peakrating = [http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Kristol,%20Luba.html 2250] (January 1987)

| ICCFworldchampion = {{unbulleted list|class=nowrap

| 1978–1984 (women)

| 1993–1998 (women)

}}

| ICCF_rating = [https://www.iccf.com/player?id=270008&tab=3 2338] (October 2008)

| ICCF_peakrating = 2488 (October 2001)

|native_name=לובה קריסטול|native_name_lang=he}}

Ljuba Danielovna Kristol ({{langx|he|לובה דניאלובנה קריסטול}}; {{langx|ru|Любовь Даниэловна Кристол}}; born May 26, 1944, in Leningrad) is a Russian-born Israeli chess player who holds the ICCF title of Lady Grandmaster (LGM) and the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM).

She is best known for winning the ICCF Women's World Championship in correspondence chess on two occasions: between 1978 and 1984, and between 1993 and 1998.

She grew up in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and since 1976 has lived in Israel.

Kristol is the four-time OTB women's chess champion of Israel.

She took part in four Chess Olympiads as a member of the Israeli team. In the Olympiad in 1976 (which took place in Haifa), Kristol won the gold medal with the Israeli team.

In 1989 Kristol participated in a zonal tournament in Haifa, and shared 1st–2nd place.