Anna Cramling

Player

Birthday April 30, 2002

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Fuengirola, province of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

Age 21 years old

Nationality Spain

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1600

This performance also helped her reach a rating of 1600.

1772

She won one out of four games against rated opponents, defeating Raymond Kearsley, an English player rated 1772.

1800

These tournaments included the Rilton under-1800 tournament in Stockholm around New Year's Day and the Amateur A and Amateur B competitions at Gibraltar.

1958

As the 58th seed out of 125 participants, she finished slightly better than her seeding in 54th place with a score of 6/11.

1984

Her mother was No. 1 in the world among women by FIDE rating in 1984 and became the fifth woman ever to achieve the GM title in 1992.

Her father is a five-time Spanish champion.

Cramling began playing chess at age three.

Throughout her childhood, both of her parents were actively competing at chess.

When she was young, she typically accompanied her parents to chess tournaments because her only regular babysitter was her maternal grandfather, who was not regularly available to babysit because he lived in Sweden.

Cramling and her parents lived in Spain until she was eleven years old, when they moved to Sweden.

2000

Cramling first reached a rating of 2000 in June 2016 at age 14 after competing in the Hasselbacken Chess Open in Stockholm.

Her best victory in that tournament was against her compatriot Michael Backman, who was rated 2161.

2002

Anna Yolanda Cramling Bellón (born 30 April 2002) is a Spanish-Swedish chess player, Twitch live streamer, and YouTuber who holds the FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM).

She had a peak FIDE rating of 2175 in March 2018.

Cramling was born on 30 April 2002 in Malaga to Pia Cramling and Juan Manuel Bellón López.

Her mother is from Sweden and her father is from Spain.

Both of her parents are chess players and both hold the Grandmaster (GM) title.

2011

Cramling competed in 7 of the 11 rounds which contributed to Sweden placing 23rd out of the 134 competing teams.

2013

Cramling earned her first FIDE rating in February 2013 at age 10, starting out at 1519 after playing the Amateur A competition at the Gibraltar Chess Festival.

2014

Cramling switched federations from Spain to Sweden in 2014, having only played in a few tournaments while representing Spain.

The following year, 2014, she won the women's prize in the same Amateur A competition at Gibraltar.

Her prize drew media attention because her parents regularly competed at the event and she had regularly been attending even as an infant.

2015

She participated in several European Youth, World Cadets, World Youth, and World Junior Chess Championships in different age divisions from 2015 until 2019.

When representing Sweden in international team competitions, she has played on the same team with her mother while her father has served as the team captain.

Cramling had a large increase in rating in early 2015 at age 12 when she gained over 300 rating points across four tournaments in two months to surpass a rating of 1900.

At the end of 2015, Cramling participated in the girls under-14 division of the World Cadets Chess Championship in Porto Carras, Greece.

2016

Cramling represented Sweden in the 2016 and 2022 Chess Olympiad as well as two European Team Chess Championships.

Cramling grew up in a chess-playing family.

Her mother is Swedish grandmaster (GM) Pia Cramling, and her father is Spanish grandmaster (GM) Juan Manuel Bellón López.

She began playing chess at age three while living in Spain, but she later moved with her family to Sweden at age eleven, switching federations from Spain to Sweden soon after.

In September 2016, 14-year old Cramling represented Sweden in the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan, thereby beating the Swedish record for youngest female participant in the Olympiad, which was previously held by her mother and Siv Bengtsson.

Her mother Pia also competed at the event, and they had Anna's father as team captain.

2017

Her father later made the same federation switch in 2017.

In early 2017, Cramling played the Masters competition in Gibraltar, during which she drew a game against her father.

Towards the end of the year, she played both the European Youth Chess Championships in the girls under-16 division and World Junior Chess Championships in the girls under-20 division.

2018

Cramling earned the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 2018 at age 15, the same year she reached her peak rating.

In 2018, she defeated Renier Castellanos Rodriguez, a Spanish International Master (IM) with a FIDE rating of 2498 at the time.

2020

Cramling began streaming in early 2020, focusing on chess content.

Her mother and father are both occasional guests on her channel.

About a year later, Cramling signed with the Panda esports organization as their first chess streamer.