Won multiple international women's chess tournaments: Prešov (1988), Chelyabinsk (1990), Timișoara (1994) Bucharest (1994, together with Elena-Luminița Cosma).

[1] Shumiakina twice participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments where in 1993 in Jakarta and in 1995 in Chişinău she ranked 22nd place.

[2][3] In 2001, Tatiana Shumiakina participated in Women's World Chess Championship 2001 by knock-out and in the first round lost to Elina Danielian.

[4] Shumiakina played for Russia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[5] In 1989, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title five year later.

She works as a chess trainer in Chelyabinsk children and youth sports school.