Guadalupe Besso

Guadalupe Besso (* 1998 ) is an Argentine chess player .

Life

Guadalupe Besso learned the rules of chess at the age of seven. She has nine siblings. Her first chess teacher was her one year younger brother Javier. She plays chess for the Universidad de La Punta in the province of San Luis .

successes

She won several Argentine youth championships, for example the U16 championship for women in 2014 in Embalse and the U20 championship (women) in Concordia in 2017 .

In 2015 she won the Pan-American U18 championship in blitz chess (female) in Cali .

As a result, the Pan American U14 Championship of young women in 2012 in the Peruvian Lima , she received the title of candidate master of women (WCM). By winning the South American U18 championship for women in 2015 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Bolivia , she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). Her highest Elo rating was 2105 in December 2018. She was in seventh place in the Argentine Elo ranking of women.

Elo development

Awards

• 2016: Islas Malvinas Prize . Sports award from the Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina

Web links

• Guadalupe Besso at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Guadalupe Besso on chesstempo.com (English)
• Guadalupe Besso, la campeona que creció de la mano de la enseñanza digital . Interview from July 30, 2018 at the Agencia de Noticias San Luis (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guadalupe Besso, la primera dama del ajedrez . Article from September 15, 2017 on infomerlo.com (Spanish)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Puntanos que se destacan: la Cámara de Diputados de la Nación reconoció a la ajedrecista Guadalupe Besso . Article from June 15, 2016 on sanluisdeelegantesport.com (Spanish)
3. ^ Ajedrez: Guadalupe Besso se quedó con la medalla de oro del Sudamericano . Article of 7 December 2015 in El Diario de la República (Spanish)
4. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)