Edith Xio Mara García García

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Edith Xio Mara García García (born August 20, 1977 ) is a Mexican paleobiologist and chess player .

Paleobiology

Edith Xio Mara García García studied biology at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias (CUCBA) of the Universidad de Guadalajara and received a PhD in geology from the Spanish University of Salamanca . She is Honorary Professor of Paleobiology at the Centro Universitario de Tonalá (CUTonalá) of the Universidad de Guadalajara in Tonalá . There she is also head of the department for water and energy technology.

In Spain from 2006 to 2009 she researched the changes in ecosystems from the Middle Miocene to the Pleistocene in the Atlantic from Portugal to Morocco, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. In Mexico, she worked from 2011 to 2013 on the effects of global warming on the biodiversity of Mexican reptiles, funded by the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). She also led a project on paleo ichthyology in Lake Chapala , the largest natural inland body of water in Mexico.

Her scientific publications have appeared in Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, Ameghiniana , Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Crustaceana , International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Estudios Geológicos, Geogaceta and Revista Española de Micropaleontología.

chess

Her father taught her to play chess when she was seven years old. When she was ten years old, she trained at the Zapopan House of Culture , and when she was 14, Víctor Manuel Rizo Gómez was her chess coach.

For the Mexican women's national team, she played six chess Olympiads between 1994 and 2004 : in 1994 and 1996 on the first reserve board, in 1998 and 2004 on the second and in 2000 and 2002 on the third board. Her best result at the Chess Olympiads was in Yerevan in 1996 with five points from eight games.

She has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) since 2000 .

Since 2011 she has been involved in the Torremex youth chess project run by the Portuguese chess player Édgar Perreira, who set up a chess school in Guadalajara.

Her Elo rating is 2028 (as of March 2020), her highest to date was 2075 in July 1998; However, she is considered inactive because she has not played an Elo-rated chess game since February 2012.

Awards

  • 1997: Premio Luchador Olmeca , awarded by the Confederación Deportiva Mexicana (CODEME)
  • 2012: Induction into the Jalisco State Sports Hall of Fame

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Interview in La gaceta de la Universidad de Guadalajara , edition November 19, 2002, on admission to the Hall of Fame of Sports in the State of Jalisco, page 24 ( PDF , 3.971 MB; Spanish)
  2. ↑ a b c CV and list of publications from 2016 (PDF, 1.4 MB; Spanish)
  3. ↑ The Chess Olympiads by Edith Xio Mara García García on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ La reina regresa a dar jaque: Edith Xio Mara vuelve a los tableros de ajedrez . Article of March 26, 2011 in the Mexican newspaper El Informador (Spanish)
  5. ↑ Winner of the Luchador Olmeaca 1983 to 2016 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME García García, Edith Xio Mara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garcia Garcia, Edith Xio Mara (FIDE); Garcia Garcia, Edith; García, EXM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican paleobiologist and chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1977