Karen Zapata

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Lidia Karen Zapata Campos (at the World Chess Federation FIDE Karen Zapata ; born December 28, 1982 in Ferreñafe , Lambayeque region ) is a Peruvian chess player .

Life

She learned to play chess at the age of four. She went to school in the Colegio San Augustin in Chiclayo and in the Colegio Santa Rosa in Trujillo . She studied at the Catholic University of San Juan Bosco in Trujillo. She is trained by IM Juan Samame Castillo .

successes

In 1999 she became the Pan-American U20 youth champion in Santiago de Chile , in 2000 she became the Pan-American U18 junior champion in Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, and at the 2002 Pan-American girls' championship in La Paz , she finished second behind Cindy Tsai . At the American Continental Championship in August 2005, she was second behind Claudia Amura in the women's tie- breaker competition . At the women's zone tournament in São Paulo in October 2005, she qualified as the winner for the 2006 Women's World Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg , where she eliminated Jekaterina Lagno in the first round . In the second round she failed to Svetlana Matvejewa . In August 2007 she won the zone tournament in Trujillo with six points from seven games.

With the Peruvian women's national team, she took part in three Chess Olympiads ( 2002 , 2004 and 2006 ), each on the first board. She has been playing club chess since 2009 in the 1st Galician league in Northern Spain, in the 2013/14 season of the Swiss Bundesliga for Cercle d'échecs de Nyon and for the Club d'Echecs d'Annemasse in France, with which she won the 2014 team championship Women won.

She won the Peruvian women's championship five times, for example in Lima in 2002 , in Callao in 2003 and in Lima in 2004, each time ahead of Luciana Morales Mendoza .

Since 1999 she has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). Her Elo rating is 2108 (as of August 2020), which puts her behind Deysi Cori in second place in the Peruvian Elo ranking of women, which she had topped in October 2007. Her highest rating to date was 2236 in April 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview from November 28, 2007 on torre64.com (no longer online, Spanish)
  2. ↑ Pan American Championship U18 Championship on brasilbase.pro.br (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Karen Zapata's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Results of the Peruvian Women's Championships up to 2003 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ Peruvian Championships 2004 ( Memento from June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Zapata, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zapata Campos, Lidia Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferreñafe , Lambayeque Region , Peru