Ivana Maria Furtado (born 16 March 1999) is a chess prodigy from Goa, India. She won the Under-8 World Youth Chess Championship twice in a row in 2006 and 2007, and won second place in the 2009 Under-10. Her FIDE Elo rating as of March 2019 is 2139, and she holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM).
 Furtado in 2012 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 March 1999 Goa, India |
| Chess career | |
| Country | India |
| Title | Woman International Master (2012) |
| Peak rating | 2277 (November 2015) |
Ivana won gold in the Under 12 category at the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2009 in Singapore on 14 December 2009.[1]
She became Woman FIDE Master in 2011 [2] and became a Woman International Master in June 2012. [3]
She got her first Woman Grandmaster norm by winning the Girls title at the Asian Junior Chess Championship, Tashkent in June 2012.[4] She won the 28th edition of National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India) in July 2013 held in Uttar Pradesh. [5]
References
edit- ↑ "7 Medals for India in the Commonwealth Chess Championship - 2009". indianchessfed.org. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
- ↑ "Ivana gets FIDE WFM rating". ibnlive.in.com. 21 February 2011. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012.
- ↑ "Ivana Maria, Furtado". ratings.fide.com. Archived from the original on 23 October 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ↑ Hari Hara Nandanan (7 June 2012). "Srinath, Ivana win Asian Junior Chess titles". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ https://ratings.fide.com/report.phtml?event=76936
External links
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- Ivana Maria Furtado rating card at FIDE
- Ivana Maria Furtado player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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