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Ivana Maria Furtado (born 16 March 1999) is a chess prodigy from Goa, India. She won the Under-8 World Youth Chess Championship twice in a row in 2006 and 2007, and won second place in the 2009 Under-10. Her FIDE Elo rating as of March 2019 is 2139, and she holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM).

Ivana won gold in the Under 12 category at the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2009 in Singapore on 14 December 2009.^[1]

She became Woman FIDE Master in 2011 ^[2] and became a Woman International Master in June 2012. ^[3]

She got her first Woman Grandmaster norm by winning the Girls title at the Asian Junior Chess Championship, Tashkent in June 2012.^[4]

References

^ "7 Medals for India in the Commonwealth Chess Championship - 2009". indianchessfed.org. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
^ "Ivana gets FIDE WFM rating". ibnlive.in.com. 21 February 2011. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012.
^ "Ivana Maria, Furtado". ratings.fide.com. Archived from the original on 23 October 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
^ Hari Hara Nandanan (7 June 2012). "Srinath, Ivana win Asian Junior Chess titles". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2012.

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