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Dina Vadimovna Belenkaya is a Russian-born Israeli chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a four-time St. Petersburg women’s champion, and has represented St. Petersburg at the Russian Women’s Team Championship and the European Chess Club Cup for Women. After leaving Russia she changed her country to Israel since she is Jewish.
She competed in chess-boxing and won against
As of June 2025, Dina has amassed 687,000 followers on Instagram, 300,800 followers on TikTok, 576,000 subscribers on YouTube and 100,000 followers on her Twitch platform.
Dina Vadimovna Belenkaya was born on 22 December 1993 in . Her mother Asya Kovalyova has been a children’s chess coach for over 30 years and notably was the first coach of , who has since become a (GM) and has been ranked as high as No. 3 in the world. Belenkaya learned how to play chess from her mother at age three and began competing at age five. When she was 10 years old, she began working with Andrey Praslov, a (FM) who was a coach at the same chess club as her mother.
Dina Vadimovna Belenkaya is a Russian-born Israeli chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a four-time St. Petersburg women’s champion, and has represented St. Petersburg at the Russian Women’s Team Championship and the European Chess Club Cup for Women. After leaving Russia she changed her country to Israel since she is Jewish.
Dina Belenkaya is a Russian and chess streamer. As a chess player, she won the Russian First League in 2011 and the St. Petersburg Women’s Championship three times (2015, 2018, and 2020).
Belenkaya is a U.S.-based Russian with a peak FIDE rating of 2364, who has frequently appeared as a commentator on Chess.com. Over the last couple of years, Dina has carved out a space for herself as one of the most entertaining personalities in .
