Title Woman Grandmaster | Name Deysi Cori Siblings Jorge Cori Role Chess Player | |
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Full name Deysi Estela Cori Tello Born July 2, 1993 (age 30) Lima, Peru ( 1993-07-02 ) | ||
Pogonina deysi cori peru 2010 woman world chess blitz champ
Deysi Estela Cori Tello (born 2 July 1993) is a Peruvian chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and a twice American continental women's champion. She also won the under 16 girls' world championship in 2009 and the under 20 girls' world championship in 2011.
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- Pogonina deysi cori peru 2010 woman world chess blitz champ
- Deysi cori beats gm guseynov
- Career
- References
Born in Lima, Cori is the top ranked female player of Peru and played for her country's national team in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2004, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
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Career
Deysi Cori won the Under-10 Girls' Division of the Pan American Youth Chess Festival in 2003 in Bogotà and the Under-12 Girls' one the following year.
In 2004, at the age of eleven, Cori made her debut on the national women's team at the 36th Chess Olympiad. She played on the reserve board and scored 5 points out of 7 (four wins, two draws, one loss).
In 2007, she won the Pan American Under-14 Girls' Championship.
In June 2008, Cori took the gold medal in the Pan American Junior U20 Girls Championship. The following month she won the Pan American Under-16 Girls' Championship and thanks to this result she was awarded the title of Woman International Master. At the end of July, Cori finished first in the U15 Girls' Division of the World School Chess Championships in Singapore.
She finished equal first with Martha Fierro in the Women's American Continental Championship in September 2009, placing second on tiebreak. In November 2009, Cori tied for first place at the World U-20 Girls Championship, taking the silver medal on tiebreaks. Later that month, she won the U-16 Girls' section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Antalya, Turkey, winning nine of her first ten games, and clinched the title with a round to spare.
In November 2010, Cori finished second in the under-18 girls' division of the World Youth Championship in Porto Carras, Greece. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010, for which she qualified by coming second in the 2009 American Continental Women's Championship, and was knocked out by Mariya Muzychuk in the first round.
Cori won the American Continental Women's Championship in June 2011. In the following month, she won the Pan American U18 Girls Championship. In August 2011, she won the World U-20 Girls Championship in Chennai, India and this achievement earned her the qualification for the Women's World Chess Championship 2012. In the latter she was eliminated in the first round by the eventual winner, Anna Ushenina.
In May 2013, Cori tied for third place with her brother and Argentine grandmaster Diego Flores in the American Continental Championship, placing fifth on tiebreak, and thus qualified for the Chess World Cup 2013. In the latter she lost to Hikaru Nakamura in the first round and therefore was eliminated from the competition.
In December 2014, she came equal second (third on countback) in the 5th Latin American Cup scoring 7/9, a point behind the winner, Cuban grandmaster Lázaro Bruzón.
Cori took part in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, where she was knocked out in the first round by Lei Tingjie. In May 2015, she placed third in the Zonal 2.4 championship, which qualified the top two players for the Chess World Cup 2015. She earned a spot in the latter when her brother Jorge, who came first in the Zonal 2.4, renounced his. At the World Cup she lost to Vladimir Kramnik in the first round. In February 2016, Cori won for the second time the American Continental Women's Championship, which was held in her hometown.