Camila Colombo

Signature of Camila Colombo

Camila Colombo Seré (born June 4, 1990 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan chess player .

Life

Camila Colombo is a student at the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the Universidad de la República , the largest university in Uruguay, and works as a chess teacher.

She plays club chess for the Club Banco República from Montevideo, of which she has been a member since 1998. She is trained by the Uruguayan international champion Bernardo Roselli Mailhe .

successes

In 2007 she won the South American U-18 Championship for women in Federación, Argentina . She won the Uruguayan women's singles championship in Montevideo seven times (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014), and was runner-up twice (2006 in Paysandú behind Leticia Vilariño and 2011 in Montevideo behind Patricia de León ). In 2010, Camila Colombo won the Uruguayan U-20 championship for male and female youth in Montevideo.

For the Uruguayan women's national team, Camila Colombo played on the top board at the 2008 Chess Olympiads in Dresden , 2012 in Istanbul and 2014 in Tromsø .

For her result of six points from ten games at the 2008 Chess Olympiad, she received the title of FIDE Women's Champion (WFM). When Zone Tournament of women in Santiago de Chile for the zone 2.5 in September 2011. It reached 6.5 points from nine games in third place and received from FIDE the title International Women's Champion (WIM). She is the first and only Uruguayan with this title.

Her highest Elo rating was 2129 in September 2009. For several years Colombo has led the Uruguayan Elo ranking of women by a large margin, but it is listed as inactive (as of May 2016) as it did not have any after the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad Played more Elo rated games.

Game example

In the second round of the 2008 Chess Olympiad, Uruguay played against the third German team in the women's tournament. On the second board, Camila Colombo played with the white pieces against WIM Claudia Steinbacher . Colombo sacrificed two bishops in order to let the black king run halfway into a mate trap.

1. d2 – d4 d7 – d5 2. c2 – c4 c7 – c6 3. Nb1 – c3 e7 – e6 4. e2 – e4 d5xe4 5. Nc3xe4 Ng8 – f6 6. Ne4xNf6 + Qd8xNf6 7. Ng1 – f3 Nb8 – d7 8. a2 – a3 a7 – a6 9. Bf1 – e2 Bf8 – d6 10. 0–0 0–0 11. Bc1 – d2 Qf6 – d8 12. Bd2 – c3 c6 – c5 13. Qd1 – c2 Qd8 – c7 14. d4xc5 Bd6xc5 15. b2 – b4 Bc5 – e7 16. Nf3 – d4 a7 – a6 17. Qc2 – b3 Nd7 – f6 18. Re1 – d1 Bc8 – d7 19. Nd4 – f3 Re8 – d8 20. Bc3 – e5 Qc7 – c8 21. Nf3 – d4 Nf6 – e8 22. Qb3 – g3 f7 – f6 23. Be5 – f4 e6 – e5 24. Bf4xh6 e5xNd4 25. Be2 – h5 Be7 – d6 26. f2 – f4 Kg8 – h8 27. Bh5xNe8 g7xBh6 28. Qg3– g6 Bd7xLe8 29. Qg6xh6 + Kh8 – g8 30. Rd1 – d3 Kg8 – f7? 31. Qh6 – h7 + Kf7 – e6 32. f4 – f5 + Ke6 – e5 33. Rf1 – e1 + Ke5 – f4 34. Rd3 – f3 + Kf4 – g5 35. Qh7 – g7 + Black resigned because the checkmate was unstoppable. 1-0

Camila Colombo -
Claudia Steinbacher

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Position after 35. Qh7 + g7 +

Web links

• Camila Colombo at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Camila Colombo on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chess Department of the Club Banco República (Spanish)
2. ↑ Interview with Camila Colombo from March 9, 2011 (Spanish)
3. ↑ List of Uruguayan women champions (Spanish)
4. ↑ Camila Colombo's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Zone tournament for women 2011 in Zone 2.5 (Spanish)
6. ↑ Game to replay on chessgames.com (English)