Pia Cramling

Pia Cramling
Pia Cramling in 2023
Born
Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling

(1963-04-23) 23 April 1963 (age 61)
Stockholm, Sweden
SpouseJuan Manuel Bellón López
ChildrenAnna Cramling Bellón
Chess career
CountrySweden
TitleGrandmaster (1992)
FIDE rating2429 (October 2024)
Peak rating2550 (October 2008)
Peak rankingNo. 1 woman (January 1984)
No. 178 (July 1992)

Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling[1] (born 23 April 1963) is a Swedish chess grandmaster. 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 occasions. She was the clear number-one-rated woman in the January 1984 rating list, and joint number-one-rated woman in the January 1983 and July 1984 lists.[2][3] In 1992, she became the fifth woman to earn the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

  1. ^ "Athletes / CRAMLING Pia Ann Rosa-Della". worldmindgames2012.sportresult.com. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  2. ^ "FIDE Rating List January 1984". OlimpBase. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  3. ^ "FIDE Rating List July 1984". OlimpBase. Retrieved 28 March 2015.