Claudia Amura

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chess player. Her parents are Luis Amura and Bersabet Gramayo.

She began playing chess when she was not yet 7 years old. Until the age of 8 managed to take part in her first tournament. One of the organizers of the tournament even thought that the little girl accidentally took the place of a real chess player. At the age of 13, she won her first national tournament with 32 participants, only 2 of whom were women. Since the second half of the 1980s her coach was Oscar Panno.

Repeatedly became champion of Argentina. Won the 1997 Pan-American Championships in Venezuela. Six times (in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999) won the South American Championship. Won the Capablanca Memorial Women's Tournament in Cuba in 1990.

Three times participated in inter-zonal tournaments (qualifiers for the world championship) in 1990, 1991 and 1993. Her best performance was in 1990 in Azov - 5th place.

Three times she participated in world championships by knockout system: in 2000 she lost on the 1st stage to Xu Yuhua, in 2006 on the 1st stage to Irina Krush and in 2008 on the 2nd stage to Zhuan Liufei. At the 2008 World Championships, she signed a letter demanding that the championship be moved from Russia because of the aggression against Georgia, but she did not leave the championship.

She won bronze medals twice (2005 and 2007) at the American Championships. In 2007, she won the zonal tournament in Portero de los Funes.

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