Melissa Castrillón Gómez (born 1995) is a Colombian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master. She has represented Colombia at three Chess Olympiads.
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Full name | Melissa Castrillón Gómez |
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Born | 1995 (age 26–27) |
Title | Woman International Master (2012) |
In 2009, in Mar del Plata, Castrillón won Pan American Girls' Chess Championship in the under 14 age group.[1] In 2011, in La Ceja she won South American Zonal Women's Chess Championship and was given the right to participate in Women's World Chess Championship.[2] In 2012, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Castrillón made her debut in the Women's World Chess Championship, where in the first round she lost to Nadezhda Kosintseva.[3]
She has played for Colombia at four Chess Olympiads (2012—2018) and won individual silver (2012) medal.[4]
Castrillón was awarded the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 2009,[5] and as a result of her performance in the 2011 South American Zonal Women's Chess Championship she was awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 2012.[6]
She won the Women's section of the Colombian Chess Championship in 2020.[7]