Tilsia Carolina Varela La Madrid (born 1994), is a Venezuelan chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master in 2013.

Chess career

She has represented Venezuela at a number of Women's Chess Olympiads, including

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, where she scored 3½/7 on board four,

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(6/8 as first reserve) and

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(4/9 on board three). She qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2021, where she took

Pauline Guichard Pauline Guichard (born 14 November 1988, in Colombes) is a French chess player and an International Master. She won the Women's section of the 2018 and 2019 French Chess Championship. She participated in the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansi ...

to tiebreaks before eventually being defeated 2½-1½ in the first round. She again qualified for the

Women's Chess World Cup 2023 The Women's Chess World Cup 2023 was a 103-player single-elimination chess tournament, the second edition of the Women's Chess World Cup, taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 29 July to 22 August 2023. The runner up and third place finishers, ...

, being eliminated by

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in the first round.

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Tilsia Carolina Varela La Madrid
chess games at 365chess.com 1994 births Living people Venezuelan chess players Chess Woman International Masters Chess Olympiad competitors {{Venezuela-chess-bio-stub