Camila Colombo Seré (born 4 June 1990) is a Uruguayan psychopedagogue and

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player. She was awarded the title of

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(WIM) by FIDE in 2012. Colombo is a multiple-time national women's champion.

Personal life

Born in Montevideo, Camila Colombo at age 8, together with her sisters, learned to play chess with her father. Colombo studied education at the at the

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, and

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at Instituto Universitario CEDIIAP. Since 2011 she has lived in Spain and works at the ''Club Mágico de Extremadura'' as a sports and therapeutic chess instructor. She is studying for a master's degree in neuropsychological rehabilitation and cognitive stimulation at the

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Chess

She went on to play at the Uruguayan School of Chess for Club

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and participated in several national and international tournaments. In 2002 Colombo became the Uruguayan girls U12 champion and the South American school girls U12 champion. In the same year, she took the bronze medal for the third place of Uruguay in the South American team championships, and she also won the gold medal for the best player on board four. In 2007, Colombo became the South American girls U18 champion. Colombo won the Uruguayan women's championship for four consecutive years from 2007 to 2010. In 2011, she qualified to play in the Uruguayan absolute championship, becoming the first woman to do so. Later in the same year, Colombo finished third in the Zonal 2.5 women's tournament in

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. Thanks to this result, she was awarded the title of

(WIM), becoming the first from Uruguay. In 2013, Colombo became again the Uruguayan women's champion. She was part of the Uruguayan team at the

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in Dresden,

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in Istanbul and

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in Tromsø. Thanks to her performance in Dresden, Colombo was awarded the title of

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(WFM) in 2009.

Awards

*2010: first place in the U20 Absolute Uruguayan Championship. *2011: third place in the South American Zonal Championship 2.5. *2011: Female International Master. *2012: twelfth place in the Absolute Uruguayan Championship. *2014: ninth place in the Absolute Uruguayan Championship. *2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2012; 2013; 2014: first place in the Uruguayan Women's Championship.

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