Pia Cramling | |
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Born | Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling 23 April 1963 Stockholm, Sweden |
Spouse | |
Children | Anna Cramling Bellón |
Chess career | |
Country | Sweden |
Title | Grandmaster (1992) |
FIDE rating | 2415 (November 2024) |
Peak rating | 2550 (October 2008) |
Peak ranking | No. 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).