Pia Cramling

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pia Cramling
Occupation	Chess Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 23, 1963(1963-04-23)
Age	61
Birthplace	Sweden
Country	Sweden
Horoscope	Taurus

Pia Cramling Biography

Pia Cramling is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on April 23, 1963 in Sweden, Sweden. Swedish chess Grandmaster who was one of the top female players in the world for more than three decades.

She competes against top women’s player Judit Polgar in International competition.

In team competitions, Cramling represented Sweden in the Chess Olympiad in both the open and women’s events, European Team Chess Championship in both open and women’s sections, Telechess Olympiad and Nordic Cup. In the Women’s Chess Olympiad, she has won the individual gold medal as the best player on board 1 (according to the rating performance) in 1984 and 1988. In the European Club Cup for Women, Cramling has won the team gold medal in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2016 playing for team Cercle d’Echecs Monte Carlo.

Cramling is, aside from Judit Polgar (who elected to not play in women’s events), the only woman to have earned the grandmaster title before 2000 who has never won the Women’s World Champion crown. According to Cramling, one explanation for this is that the World Championship is a team effort and more prominent chess nations are able to give their players better support in important events. Nevertheless, Cramling has been in reasonably close contention for the crown on four occasions (all in different decades). In the 1986 and 1996 Candidates cycle she came in fourth and third respectively. Since the Women’s World Championship has been held with the knock-out format, she reached the semifinals in 2008 and 2015. These latter results qualified her to play in the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix series in 2009–11 and 2015–16 respectively. She has had greater success in Europe where she won the Women’s European Individual Chess Championship in 2003 and 2010. In 2006, she won the Accentus Ladies Tournament in Biel.

She married Spanish grandmaster Juan Manuel Bellón López and resides in Spain.

Pia Cramling Net Worth

Pia Cramling is one of the richest Chess Player from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pia Cramling 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She began playing chess internationally in the late 1970s.

She often plays for the Swedish Men’s team in the Chess Olympiads.

Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling (born 23 April 1963) is a Swedish chess player. In 1992, she became the fifth woman to earn the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). Since the early 1980s, she has been one of the strongest female players in the world as well as having been the highest rated woman in the FIDE World Rankings on three different occasions. She was the clear number one rated woman in the January 1984 rating lists, and joint number one rated woman in the July 1984 and January 1996 lists.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Pia Cramling Dating?

According to our records, Pia Cramling married to Juan Manuel Bellón López. As of December 1, 2023, Pia Cramling’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Pia Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Pia Cramling celebrates birthday on April 23 of every year.

Top Facts about Pia Cramling

1. Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling is a Swedish Grandmaster (GM) chess player.
2. She has been one of the strongest female players in the world since the early 1980s.
3. She has been the highest rated woman in the FIDE World Rankings on three occasions.
4. She is the only woman to have earned the grandmaster title before 2000 who has never won the Women’s World Champion crown.
5. She won the Women’s European Individual Chess Championship in 2003 and 2010.
6. She represented Sweden in both the open and women’s Chess Olympiad.
7. She won the individual gold medal as the best player on board 1 in the Women’s Chess Olympiad in 1984, 1988 and 2022.
8. She won the team gold medal in the European Club Cup for Women in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2016.
9. Her first International Master (IM) title was in 1983.
10. She earned her three GM norms in Italy (1989), Las Palmas (1990) and Bern (1992).
11. She is married to the Spanish grandmaster Juan Manuel Bellón López.
12. She and her husband have a daughter Anna Cramling Bellón, a Woman FIDE Master and a chess YouTuber.
13. At the 42nd and 44th Chess Olympiad, Pia and Anna both played for Sweden, with Pia being team captain on board 1.
14. She was the clear number one rated woman in the January 1984 rating list and joint number one rated woman in the July 1984 list.
15. She has been in reasonably close contention for the Women’s World Champion crown on four occasions.

Is Anna cramling a WGM?

She participated in several European Youth, World Cadets, World Youth, and World Junior Chess Championships in different age divisions from 2015 until

2019. Cramling earned the WFM title at age 15 in 2018 , the same year she reached her peak rating.

How long has Anna cramling been playing chess?

Chess Career Cramling was born into a chess family in 2002. Her mother was the fifth-ever female grandmaster, and her father a five-time Spanish chess champion.

Who invented Botez gambit?

Who Created The Botez Gambit? The term “Botez Gambit” was created by viewers of the BotezLive channel. They came up with the meme after WFM Alexandra Botez , the channel’s founder, repeatedly blundered her queen across multiple streams. WFM Alexandra Botez, the founder of BotezLive.

Who was the best female chess player?

1. Judit Polgar. While Judit Polgar has never actually won a World Women’s Chess Championship, there’s no doubt that she is the strongest woman ever to play chess. …
2. Maya Chiburdanidze.
3. Susan Polgar. …
4. Xie Jun.
5. Vera Menchik.

What is WFM in chess?

WFM – Woman FIDE Master.