Cindy Tsai

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Cindy Tsai, Seattle 2003
Association United StatesUnited States United States
Born July 9, 1985
Chicago
title International Women's Champion (2002)
Current  Elo rating 2152 (October 2019)
Best Elo rating 2204 (October 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Cindy Tsai (born July 9, 1985 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American chess player .

Life

Her parents are from Taiwan . Although Cindy Tsai was born in Chicago, she grew up in Gainesville, Florida . There she learned to play chess from George Pyne, a chess teacher, at the age of seven. Her later youth coaches were George Rottmann, Arno Nolting, Tim Hartigan and Grandmaster Gabriel Schwartzman . She studied at Stanford University in Stanford (California) and then worked as a customer service manager at the smartphone company Peek in New York City . Since 2009 she has been participating in a graduate program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago to do a Master of Business Administration .

successes

Cindy Tsai won many titles at Pan-American championships for female youth: U14 in May 1998 in Florianópolis , U16 in June 2000 in Bento Gonçalves , U16 in June 2001 in the Argentine department of Guaymallén, U20 in June 2002 in La Paz ahead of Karen Zapata and U20 in September 2004 in Guayaquil . She played for the US women's national team at the Mind Sports Games 2008 in Beijing .

In her early years, Cindy Tsai played for the Gainesville Hidden Oak Elementary School chess club. In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) she played two games for the team from Oxford in the 2005/06 season ; in the United States Chess League she played after a lengthy chess break in the 2010 season for Chicago Blaze .

She has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) since 2002 , which she was awarded for winning the Pan American U20 Championship. In addition, she has two norms for the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM), each for the U20 title at the Pan American Championships in 2002 and 2004. Cindy Tsai is listed as inactive at FIDE because she has not been rated since the 2005/06 season of the 4NCL. has played the rated game more.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview of September 6, 2010 ( Memento of May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Newsletter of the Alachua County School Chess Association from December 1995 (English)
  3. ↑ Report from the Mind Sports Games 2008 in Beijing by Jennifer Shahade (English)
  4. ↑ 10th Pan-American Championship for Women U14 (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ 14th Pan-American Championship for Women U16 (Portuguese)
  6. ↑ 15th Pan-American Championship for Women U16 (Portuguese)
  7. ↑ 8th Pan-American Championship for Women U20 (Portuguese)
personal data
SURNAME Tsai, Cindy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chess player
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois