Pia Cramling
Pia Cramling was born in Stockholm, Sweden on April 23rd, 1963 and is the Chess Player. At the age of 61, Pia Cramling biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling (born 23 April 1963) is a Swedish chess player.
In 1992, she became the fifth woman to win the FIDE Grandmaster title (GM).
She has been one of the world's best female players since the early 1980s, as well as being the highest rated woman in the FIDE World Rankings on three separate occasions.
She was the most rated woman in the January 1984 and January 1996 rankings, and the joint top rated woman on the July 1984 and 1996 lists.
Personal life
Juan Manuel Bellón López, the Spanish grandmaster, has been remarried to Cramling. She lived in Spain for a few years, but later moved to Sweden. Anna Cramling Bellón, a Woman FIDE Master and a Chess YouTuber, has a daughter. Both mother and daughter played for Sweden, with Pia being team captain on board 1 and Anna playing on board 5 and 3, respectively.
Career
Cramling is the only woman to have earned the grandmaster title before 2000, except for Judit Polgar (who hasn't registered in women's events) who has never won the Women's World Champion award. According to Cramling, the World Championship is a team effort, and more established chess nations are likely to give their players greater recognition in major tournaments. However, Cramling has been in fairly close contention for the throne on four occasions (all in previous decades). She came in fourth and third place in the 1986 and 1996 Candidat cycles. She has been in the semifinals in 2008 and 2015. With these latest performances, she was able to participate in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series in 2009-2011 and 2015-16 respectively. She has had more success in Europe, winning the Women's European Individual Chess Championship in 2003 and 2010. She was the first woman to win the Accentus Ladies Tournament in Biel in 2006.
Cramling competed for Sweden in both the open and women's championships, European Team Chess Championship in both the open and women's sections, Telechess Olympiad, and Nordic Cup. She has received the individual gold medal in the Women's Chess Olympiad as the best player on board 1 in 1984, 1988, and 2022 (according to the ratings' results). Cramling has won the European Club Cup for Women in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2016 for Team Cercle d'Echecs Monte Carlo.
Cramling earned the International Master (IM) award in 1983 and the Grandmaster (GM) award in 1992. In the tournament where she earned her first IM record, she defeated Raymond Keene. She achieved her three GM certificates in Italy in 1989, in Las Palmas in 1990, and Bern in 1992.