Sue Maroroa

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Sue Maroroa, Reykjavík 2013
Association New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand (until 2012) England (since 2012)
EnglandEngland 
Born March 4, 1991
Auckland , New Zealand
title International Champion of Women (2009)
Current  Elo rating 2168 (December 2019)
Best Elo rating 2168 (May 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Sue Maroroa (born March 4, 1991 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand chess player . Since October 2012 she has been playing for the English Chess Federation.

Life

Sue Maroroa is married to the English chess grandmaster Gawain Jones . She was a student at Auckland International College, trained as a nanny in Christchurch , then moved to London and now works (as of 2019) for the Sheffield City Council . In addition to chess, she also plays rugby for Sheffield Ladies RUFC - 1902 .

successes

In 2006 she won the New Zealand Women's Individual Championship in Auckland, and in 2007 she shared the New Zealand Youth Championship in Bucklands Beach with Mario Krstev and Edwin Yip. In 2010 she shared the title at the New Zealand Women's Individual Championship with Vineetha Wijesuriya.

With the New Zealand women's national team she took part in five chess Olympiads : 2002 in Bled on the first reserve board, 2004 in Calvià on the third board and 2006 in Turin , 2008 in Dresden and 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk on the second board. At the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø , she played on the second board of the English women's team.

She plays club chess in New Zealand for the Papatoetoe Chess Club . Papatoetoe is a southeastern suburb of Auckland. In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) she played in the 2008/09 season for White Rose in Division 1, 2010/11 for Bristol and 2012/13 for North East England in Division 2 and since the 2013 / 14 again for White Rose in Division 1. In Iceland she plays for Mátar .

At the Chess Olympiad in 2004 she received for her performance of five points from nine matches the title of candidate master of women (WCM) awarded the Zone Tournament 2007 in Nadi the title FIDE Master Women (WFM) and the zone tournament in 2009 in Gold Coast for its third Place the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). For many years she had topped New Zealand's women's Elo rankings. In the English Elo ranking of women, she was in fifth place in December 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Check mates plot their next international move . Article in The Dominion Post on November 24, 2009
  2. ↑ Sue Maroroa Jones on pitchero.com (English)
  3. ↑ Results of the New Zealand Women's Championship 2006 ( memento from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the Auckland Chess Center website (English)
  4. ↑ Sue Maroroa's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Maroroa, Sue
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maroroa Jones, Sue (Facebook, Rugby)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland