This Day, That Year – April 30

This day in history we feature Anna Cramling. A Spanish-Swedish chess player, Twitch live streamer, and YouTuber was born on this day 2002.

Trivia – Anna Cramling

Anna Cramling holds the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM). She had a peak FIDE rating of 2175 in March 2018. Cramling represented Sweden in the 2016 and 2022 Chess Olympiad as well as two European Team Chess Championships.

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Cramling grew up in a chess-playing family. Her mother is Swedish grandmaster Pia Cramling and her father is Spanish grandmaster Juan Manuel Bellón López. She began playing chess at age three while living in Spain but later moved with her family to Sweden at age eleven, switching federations from Spain to Sweden soon after. 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 earned the title of Woman FIDE Master in 2018 at age 15, the same year she reached her peak rating. During 2018, she defeated Renier Castellanos Rodriguez, a Spanish International Master with a FIDE rating of 2498 at the time. 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. Cramling launched her own Twitch channel in early 2020 after having the chance to commentate with her mother Pia on the 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship match between Ju Wenjun and Aleksandra Goryachkina earlier in the year. On occasion, her mother joins her on Twitch to play games or give advice. On rarer occasions, her father does as well. After about a year of streaming on Twitch, she signed with the Panda esports team, becoming their first chess streamer as well as the first Swedish chess player to sign with such an esports organisation.

Source – Wikipedia