In 2014, she won a bronze medal in the Ukrainian Youth Chess Championships in the girls U20 age group.

She repeatedly represented Ukraine at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won two medals: gold (in 2012, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group)[5] and silver (in 2011, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group).

[6][7] In 2013, she won the bronze medal in Ukrainian Women's Blitz Chess Championship.

[8] Maria Tantsiura married Ukrainian chess Grandmaster Zahar Efimenko on 25 April 2015.

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