María Teresa Mora

María Teresa Mora Iturralde (born 15 October 1902 in Cuba, † October 3, 1980 in La Habana ) was a Cuban chess player.

At age eleven, she played her first tournament at the Chess Club of Havana. She was the only person who chess lessons from José Raúl Capablanca won. Mora was also the first woman who could win the 1922 Cuban Chess Championship. The title of the Cuban women's champion, she won for 22 years in an uninterrupted sequence of 1938 until 1960.

She was twice a participant in challenger tournaments in the world chess champion. She took the 7/8 Place in Buenos Aires 1939 ( winner Vera Menchik ), and the 10-11. Moscow in 1949/50, ( winner Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko ). Your last game they played in 1962 in correspondence chess via phone for the Colombian Anita de Sánchez.

Mora received in 1950 from the hands of Folke Rogard the title International Women Master ( WIM).