Career
In 1984, she tied for first with Anna Akhsharumova in the Women"s Soviet Chess Championship. She played for Kyrgyzstan at the 1992 Women"s Chess Olympiad and represented Russia in five Women"s Chess Olympiads, from 1994 to 2002, and in two Women"s European Team Chess Championships, in 1997 and 2003. In the 2003 European Women"s Team Chess Championship in Plovdiv, Matveeva took team bronze and two individual gold medals, for the best rating performance (2720) and for the best performance on board two (5½/6 points).
In 2002 she reached the semifinals in the Women"s World Cup, where she was knocked out by Antoaneta Stefanova.
She competed in the Women"s World Chess Championship 2012, where she was knocked out in the first round by Natalia Pogonina.