Ivana Maria Furtado
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). Ivana won gold in the Under 12 category at the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2009 in Singapore on 14 December 2009. She became Woman FIDE Master in 2011 and became a Woman International Master in June 2012. She got her first Woman Grandmaster norm (chess), norm by winning the Girls title at the Asian Junior Chess Championship, Tashkent in June 2012. References External links * * Ivana Furtado wins world under-8 Asian Youth Chess Championship
* 1999 births Living people Indian female chess players Indian chess players World Youth Chess Champions Sportswomen from Goa 21st-century Indian women 21st-century Indian people Chess Woman International Masters ...
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Woman International Master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms (performance benchmarks in competitions including other titled players). Once awarded, titles are held for life except in cases of fraud or cheating. Open titles may be earned by all players, while women's titles are restricted to female players. Many strong female players hold both open and women's titles. FIDE also awards titles for arbiters, organizers and trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE. A chess title, usually in an abbreviated form, may be used as an honorific. For example, Magnus Carlsen may be styled as "GM Magnus Carlsen". History The term "master" for a strong chess player was initially used informally. From the late 19th c ...
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