Pia Cramling

Chess Player

1963 –

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Who is Pia Cramling?

Pia Cramling is a Swedish chess grandmaster. Since the early 1980s, she has been one of the strongest female players in the world.

She regularly plays on the Swedish team in the World Chess Olympiads, one of only three women to regularly play on the "men's" teams. In 1992, she was awarded the title of grandmaster by the International Chess Federation. She won the women's European Individual Chess Championship in 2003 and 2010.

Cramling, married to the Spanish grandmaster Juan Manuel Bellón López, lived in Spain for a number of years.

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Born
Apr 23, 1963
Stockholm
Nationality
  • Sweden

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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