Luciana Morales Mendoza

Luciana del Rocío Morales Mendoza ( born January 1, 1987 in Lima) is a Peruvian chess player.

Life

Your first chess coach in Lima was the International Master Mario Pino Belli. She was trained later by FM Garry Pacheco ( in Peru at the same university as she studied ) and the then IM ( now Grandmaster ) Georgui Castañeda.

Luciana Morales studied political science at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos ( UNMSM ) in Lima, the oldest university in South America. With a chess scholarship, she studied since 2006 at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Government Communication. After graduating local accounts 2011 she took at the University of Brownsville a master's degree in Public Policy and Management at.

Achievements

In 2001 she was Peruvian champion of female youth U14 and U16, 2002, she again won the U16 Championship. In the Peruvian Women Championships in October 2002 in Lima, Callao in March 2003 and in March 2004 in Lima it was each second behind Karen Zapata. In May 2003, she won the Pan American Youth Championships Girls U20 in Botucatu, Brazil ( with 4.5 points from 5 games and 1.5 points ahead ) and U16 in July 2003 in Bogotá. In September 2003 she won the zone tournament in São Paulo with 9 points from 10 games, thus qualifying for the Women's World Cup 2004 in Elista, but retired there in the first round with 0.5:1.5 against Kateryna Lahno from. In June 2005 she won the Pan American Youth Championships Girls U18 in Balneario Camboriu. In August 2006, she won the Peruvian U20 Championship the girls in Lima, in October 2006, they won in Trujillo Peru's championship of the students in the team and individual competition, in February 2007, the South American Championship for girls U20 Matheu Escobar ( Partido ), Argentina.

For the Peruvian women's national team, she participated in two Chess Olympiads: 2002 and 2006 on the second board. In the Chess Olympiads in Turin in 2006 and 2012 in Istanbul, she was also the team leader of the Peruvians.

In 2003 she was awarded the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). Your current Elo rating is 2184 (as of March 2011), so it is on the third place of the Peruvian woman rankings. Your best ever Elo rating they had with 2219 in October 2006.