Role Chess Player | Name Pia Cramling | |
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Born 23 April 1963 (age 60) Stockholm, Sweden ( 1963-04-23 ) | ||
Anna muzychuk vs pia cramling womens world chess championship 2015
Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling (born 23 April 1963) is a Swedish chess player. In 1992, she became the third female to earn the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) through conventional tournament play (fifth woman overall). Since the early 1980s, she has been one of the strongest female players in the world. She has been ranked No. 1 woman in the FIDE World Rankings on three occasions (January 1984, July 1984 and January 1985).
Contents
- Anna muzychuk vs pia cramling womens world chess championship 2015
- Round 10 Gibraltar Chess post game interview with Pia Cramling
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Round 10 Gibraltar Chess post-game interview with Pia Cramling
Career
Cramling is, aside from Judit Polgar (who elected to not play in women events), the only woman to earn the grandmaster title before 2000 but has never won the Women's World Champion crown. According to Cramling, one explanation for this is that the World Championship is a team effort and more prominent chess nations are able to give their players better support in important events. Nevertheless, Cramling has been in reasonably close contention for the crown on four occasions (all in different decades). In the 1986 and 1996 Candidates cycle she came in fourth and third respectively. Since the Women's World Championship has been held with the knock-out format, she reached the semifinals in 2008 and 2015. These latter results qualified her to play in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series in 2009–11 and 2015–16 respectively. She has had greater success in Europe where she won the Women's European Individual Chess Championship in 2003 and 2010. In 2006, she won the Accentus Ladies Tournament in Biel.
In team competitions, Cramling represented Sweden in the Chess Olympiad in both the open and women's events, European Team Chess Championship in both open and women's sections, Telechess Olympiad and Nordic Cup. In the Women's Chess Olympiad, she has won the individual gold medal as the best player on board 1 (according to the rating performace) in 1984 and 1988. In the European Club Cup for Women, Cramling has won the team gold medal in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2016 playing for team Cercle d'Echecs Monte Carlo.
Personal life
Cramling is married the Spanish grandmaster Juan Manuel Bellón López. She lived in Spain for a number of years, but recently moved back to Sweden. They have a daughter, Anna Cramling Bellon, who played for the Swedish women's chess team at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku in 2016 on board 4.
