Martha Lorena Fierro Baquero (born September 6, 1977) is an American-born
Ecuador
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ian
chess
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player holding the titles of
International Master and
Woman Grandmaster
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, and
FIDE International Organizer. She won the
American Continental Women's Chess Championship in 2009.
Born in
Kingston, Rhode Island
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, USA, Fierro has been Ecuador's strongest female chess player for many years, and has represented Ecuador in ten biennial
Chess Olympiad
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s from 1994 to 2012. In 1998 she played in the open section (with both male and female players), while in the other editions she took part in the women's tournament. Her best results were when she scored 9.5/13 in the
1996 Women's Chess Olympiad in
Yerevan
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, and 7.5/8 in the
2008 Women's Chess Olympiad in
Dresden
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, to win the silver medal on board 1 on both occasions.
Fierro won twice the Pan American Under-18 Girls Championship (in 1994 and 1995) and three times the Pan American Under-20 Girls Championship (in 1995, 1996 and 1997). She took part in the
first FIDE Women's Grand Prix series from 2009 to 2011.
Fierro is a vice president of
FIDE and a chairperson for the FIDE Commission for Women's Chess (WOM).
On 8th February, 2021, she left the italian city of Genoa, where she lived with her daughter, and went to Ecuador. She is currently been accused of kidnapping the daughter by the father of the 7th years old children, and a trial was planned to start on june 2023.
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1977 births
Living people
People with acquired Ecuadorian citizenship
Ecuadorian female chess players
Ecuadorian chess players
Chess International Masters
Chess woman grandmasters
Chess officials
People from South Kingstown, Rhode Island
21st-century Ecuadorian women
American people of Ecuadorian descent
Sportspeople of Ecuadorian descent