Luciana Morales Mendoza

Luciana Morales Mendoza, Mérida 2008
Surname	Luciana del Rocío Morales Mendoza
Association	Peru
Born	January 1, 1987 Lima
title	International Women's Champion (2003)
Current  Elo rating	2177 (April 2019)
Best Elo rating	2219 (October 2006)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Luciana del Rocío Morales Mendoza (born January 1, 1987 in Lima ) is a Peruvian chess player .

Life

Your first chess trainer in Lima was the international master Mario Belli Pino . She was later trained by FM Garri Pacheco (who studied in Peru at the same university as she) and the then IM (now Grandmaster ) Georgui Castañeda .

Luciana Morales studied political science at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) in Lima, the oldest university in South America. With a chess scholarship, she studied government and communication at the University of Texas at Brownsville since 2006 . After graduating there in 2011, she took on a master's degree in Public Policy and Management at Brownsville University , which she completed. In 2019 she received US citizenship.

successes

In 2001 she was Peruvian champion of the female youth U14 and U16, in 2002 she won the U16 championship again. At the Peruvian Women's Championships in Lima in October 2002, in Callao in March 2003 and in Lima in March 2004, she was second behind Karen Zapata . In May 2003 she won the Pan American youth championship for girls U20 in Botucatu, Brazil (with 4.5 points from 5 games and 1.5 points ahead) and U16 in July 2003 in Bogotá . In September 2003 she won the zone tournament in São Paulo with 9 points from 10 games, thus qualified for the 2004 Women's World Cup in Elista , but was eliminated there in the first round with 0.5: 1.5 against Jekaterina Lagno . In June 2005 she won the Pan-American Youth Championship for girls U18 in Balneário Camboriú . In August 2006 she won the Peruvian U20 championship for girls in Lima, in October 2006 she won the Peruvian championship for female students in team and individual competition in Trujillo, and in February 2007 she won the South American championship for girls U20 in Matheu, Escobar (Partido ), Argentina.

For the Peruvian women's national team she took part in two chess Olympiads : 2002 and 2006 on the second board. She was also nominated for the 2010 Chess Olympiad on the second board of the Peruvian women's team, but was not used. At the 2006 Chess Olympiads in Turin and 2012 in Istanbul , she was also the team leader of the Peruvians.

In 2003 she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). She is listed as inactive at FIDE because she has not played a rated game since the 2013 SW Collegiate tournament in McAllen in March 2013 .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Luciana Morales Mendoza on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview of February 21, 2007 in the Peruvian daily La República (Spanish)
2. ↑ Luciana Morales Mendoza's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)