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
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Elo rating
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor.
The Elo system was invented as an improved ch ...
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
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in 2011 and became a
Woman International Master in June 2012.
She got her first
Woman Grandmaster norm by winning the Girls title at the Asian Junior Chess Championship, Tashkent in June 2012.
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Ivana Furtado wins world under-8 Asian Youth Chess Championship
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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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