Aura Cristina Salazar

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Aura Cristina Salazar Cardona (born May 20, 1995 ) is a Colombian chess player .

Life

She learned to play chess from her father at the age of six and was later trained by the international master Jorge Mario Clavijo . She grew up in Itagüí , Departamento de Antioquia , attended the Normal Superior school in Envigado and has been studying chess at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College since 2012 on a chess scholarship .

successes

In 2007 she won the Pan-American U12 championship for women in Medellín with 8 points from 9 games, and in 2010 she won the Pan-American U20 championship for women in Cali with 8.5 out of 9 and two points.

For the Colombian women's national team, she played at the Chess Olympiads in 2010 (on the fourth board) and 2012 (on the top board). In 2014, she played for the Rio Grande Ospreys in the United States Chess League . In September 2011 she won a subzonal tournament for women in Pereira , Departamento de Risaralda with 9 points from 11 games and was awarded the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). At the U16 world championship for women in November 2011 in Caldas Novas , she finished third.

Her Elo number is 2156 (as of October 2017), which puts her in sixth place in the Colombian Elo ranking for women, but is listed as inactive because she has not played an Elo-rated game since a tournament in Medellín in August 2016 has played. Her highest rating to date was 2284 in January 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El ajedrez es mi pasión . Article by Roosevelt Castro B. in the Medellín daily newspaper El Mundo from November 18, 2011 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Chess Team Women Enjoyed Success at Istanbul Chess Olympiad . Article from October 25, 2012
  3. ↑ 19th Pan American U12 Championship female 2007 (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ 16th Pan-American U20 Championship women 2010 (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Aura Cristina Salazar's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Salazar, Aura Cristina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salazar, Aura (University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College); Salazar Cardona, Aura Cristina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1995