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 Maria Furtado | |
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![]() Furtado in 2007 (age 7-8) | |
Country | India |
Born | (1999-03-16) 16 March 1999 (age 23) |
Title | Woman Intl. Master (2012) |
FIDE rating | 2212 (April 2015) |
Peak rating | 2251 (December 2014) |
Ivana won gold in the Under 12 category at the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2009 in Singapore on 14 December 2009.[1]
She became Woman FIDE Master in 2011 [2] and became a Woman International Master in June 2012. [3]
She got her first Woman Grandmaster norm by winning the Girls title at the Asian Junior Chess Championship, Tashkent in June 2012.[4]
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