Pia Cramling

Pia Cramling, Kallithea (Chalkidiki) 2008
Association	Sweden
Born	April 23, 1963 Stockholm , Sweden
title	Women's Grand Master (1982) International Master (1983) Grand Master (1992)
Current  Elo rating	2464 (July 2020)
Best Elo rating	2550 (October 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Pia Cramling (full name Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling ; born April 23, 1963 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish chess player .

Life

Pia Cramling began playing chess at the age of ten in the Huddinger chess club SK Passanten and took part in tournaments for the first time when she was twelve.

Pia Cramling, Borislava Borisova and Margaretha Aatolainen at the 1982 Chess Olympiad in Lucerne

At the age of 15, she took part in the women's chess Olympiad for the first time in Buenos Aires in 1978 with the Swedish selection .

As a girl, she played at the first European Youth Championship , the second European Cup for girls in Kikinda in 1978.

Pia Cramling won the gold medal on the first board at the 1988 Chess Olympiad .

In 1983 she was awarded the title of International Master , and in 1992 the title of Grand Master .

Cramling won the European Women's Championship in Istanbul in 2003 and in Rijeka in 2010 .

In July 2007 she won the final of the MonRoi International Women's Grand Prix in Montreal . At the 2008 Women's World Cup in Nalchik , she was eliminated in the semi-finals against Alexandra Kosteniuk .

In February 2012 she won the rapid chess tournament ACP Women Cup Rapid in Tbilisi together with Nana Dsagnidze . At the 2015 Women's World Chess Championship in Sochi , she made it to the semi-finals.

Cramling has been leading the Swedish women's ranking since 1981, and in January 2015 she was eighth in the overall Swedish ranking and 13th in the FIDE women's world rankings . In January 1984 Pia Cramling was alone, in July 1984 together with Zsuzsa Polgár at the top of the women's world rankings.

Team chess

National team

Pia Cramling has participated in twelve Chess Olympiads since 1978 . She played in the Swedish women's team in 1978 , 1982 , 1984 , 1988 , 2004 , 2008 , 2014 and 2016 and in the open class in 1990 , 1992 , 1996 and 2000 . Cramling achieved the second best result on her board in 1978 (on the reserve board), 1982 and 1984 (each on the first board), and in 2014 (on the top board) the third best individual result; In 1984 and 1988 she achieved the best rating of all participants. Cramling has participated in European team championships four times since 1989 . She played in 1989, 1992 and 1997 in the open class, where she achieved the second-best individual result on the fifth board in 1989, in 2005 in the Swedish women's selection.

societies

In Sweden, Pia Cramling played until 2004 with SK Passanten , who was represented in the top division for years (until 1987 Division I , then Elitserien ). In the 2005/06 season she played for the Linköpings Allmäna Schacksällskap , from 2007 to 2016 she was part of the Viking team ( Sollentuna SK until 2009 ), with which she won the Swedish team championship in 2010 , 2012 and 2015 . Cramling has been playing for the Stockholm club Wasa SK since the 2016/17 season .

In the German Federal Chess League, Cramling played as the first woman in this division in the 1986/87 season at Lasker Steglitz , in the 2002/03 season and from 2008 to 2011 she played again in the Bundesliga, at SK Turm Emsdetten , with whom she from 2000 to 2004 also played in the women's Bundesliga and won it in 2001 .

In the Spanish team championship Pia Cramling played in 1988 for CA Caja Alicante , from 1990 to 1997 for the team of CE Vulcà Barcelona , with which they won the championship in 1995 , in 2000 for CE Villa de Teror and in 2006 for CA Cofimán Mancha Real .

In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL), Cramling has been playing for Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher since 2004 ( Wood Green until 2008 ) and won the 4NCL in 2005 , 2006 , 2009 , 2010 and 2012 .

In France, Cramling played from 2002 to 2006 for Évry Grand Roque , with whom she won the women's team championship in 2006 , and from 2016 for CE Monte Carlo (also abbreviated as C. E. M. C. Monaco ), with whom she won the women's team championship in 2019 , in China she was a member of Master Shanghai Jianqiao University's team in 2008 .

At the European Club Cup Women Cramling took since 2005 twice with the ŠK Internet CG Podgorica and nine times with CE Monte Carlo part, they won the competition in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2016th

family

Pia Cramling is married to the Spanish Grand Master Juan Manuel Bellón López and is the mother of Anna Cramling Bellon (* 2002), who holds the title of FIDE Women's Champion (WFM). At the 2016 Chess Olympiad , mother and daughter played together for the Swedish team.

Her brother Dan (* 1959) is international champion and won the Swedish individual championship in 1981.

Web links

Commons : Pia Cramling  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Pia Cramling on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Pia Cramling in LIMHAMNS SCHACK magasin 3/2001 (Swedish)
2. ↑ Barbara Hund : My way to success . Walter Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, pp. 46–51 (report, picture of the 18 girls and cross table).
3. ↑ Table of the second European Girls' Cup in 1978 in Kikinda
4. ↑ Women's rating list January 1984 on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Women's rating list July 1984 on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Pia Cramling's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Pia Cramling's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Pia Cramlings results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Pia Cramlings results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Pia Cramlings results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ↑ Pia Cramlings results at European Club Cups for women on olimpbase.org (English)
12. ^ FIDE index card Anna Cramling Bellon
13. ↑ List of Sweden
14. ↑ List of Swedish Masters at the Swedish Chess Federation (Swedish)