Claudia Amura

Claudia Amura at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden 2008
Surname	Claudia Noemí Amura
Association	Argentina
Born	August 26, 1970 Buenos Aires
title	International Women's Champion (1990) Women's Grandmaster (1998)
Current  Elo rating	2248 (July 2020)
Best Elo rating	2405 (January 1991)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Claudia Noemí Amura (born August 26, 1970 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine chess player .

Life

When she was seven years old, she learned to play chess from her father. Claudia Amura is director of a chess school in Merlo in the Argentine province of San Luis , also teaches at Alexei Schirow's Spanish online chess school , which is used by the Spanish Chess Federation for youth training. She wrote columns for the daily newspapers La Nación (Buenos Aires), Página / 12 (Buenos Aires) and El Liberal ( Santiago del Estero ). She lectured on courses for sports journalists at the DEPORTEA school. She has been married to the Mexican chess grandmaster Gilberto Hernández since 1997 . The couple have four children, three boys and a girl.

Chess successes

She won six South American women's championships (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 1999) and was five times Argentine women's champion. In 1986 she won the Voz da Unidade tournament in São Paulo , in 1990 the Grand Prix Open in Buenos Aires, the women's tournament at the Capablanca Memorial in Cuba and the women's zone tournament in La Paz . At the 1990 U20 World Junior Championship she was third. In 1991 she won the women's zone tournament in São Paulo. In 1992 she won the championship of Buenos Aires, finished second in the Pan-American U20 championship in Paraguay and won the Brasília zone tournament . In 1995 she won the Hexagonal women tournament in Ribeirão Preto . She won the Pan American Women's Championship in 1997 in Mérida , Venezuela. In 2001 she took first place at the Open in Ponferrada . In 2007 she won the zone tournament in Potrero de los Funes , San Lui province, and qualified for the next women's world championship , where she was eliminated in the first round against Ruan Lufei .

Claudia Amura took part in nine women's chess Olympiads : between 1988 and 1998 on the first board and from 2008 on the second board. In the Olympics she got 57 points from 97 games (+37 = 40 −20). In 1996 in Yerevan Argentina did not run. At the 1990 Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad , she received an individual silver medal for her result of 8 out of 10.

Their first chess club was Jaque Mate . At the age of 15 she played at the Centenario Club Argentino , her coach there from 1985 to 1990 was the Argentine chess grandmaster Óscar Panno . In France she played for the women's team of Évry Grand Roque until 2004 .

In 1990 she became International Women's Champion (WIM), and since 1998 she has been the first Ibero-American woman to hold the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM). She is behind Carolina Luján in second place in the Argentine Elo ranking of women, which she led for a long time (as of July 2014). In January 1991, with her highest rating to date of 2405, she was twelfth in the FIDE world rankings for women.

Web links

Commons : Claudia Amura  - Collection of Images

• Homepage of WGM Amura and GM Hernández, last update 2007 ( Memento of August 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
• Playable chess games by Claudia Amura on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claudia Amura's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 84