Carla Heredia Serrano Explained

Country:	Ecuador
Birth Date:	10 February 1991
Birth Place:	Quito, Ecuador
Woman Grandmaster (2013)
Fideid:	3603687
Peakrating:	2250 (May 2013)^[1]

Carla Heredia Serrano (born 10 February 1991) is an Ecuadorian chess player and Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2013).^[2]

Biography

Heredia has won nine Ecuadorian Girl's Chess Championships in different age groups. She three times participated in World Girls' Junior Chess Championships (2009-2011).^[3] In 2009, she won the American Girl's Chess Championship in U20 age group and Ecuadorian Women's Chess Championship, and has become the winner of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship South American Zonal Tournament and got the right to participate in the finals.^[4] In 2010 Heredia participated in Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Hou Yifan.^[5]

Heredia played for Ecuador in the Women's Chess Olympiads:^[6]

• In 2008, at fourth board in the 38th Chess Olympiad (women) in Dresden (+2, =2, -5),
• In 2012, at second board in the 40th Chess Olympiad (women) in Istanbul (+3, =1, -5),
• In 2014, at first board in the 41st Chess Olympiad (women) in Tromsø (+2, =3, -4),
• In 2016, at second board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Baku (+5, =2, -3),^[7]
• In 2018, at second board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Batumi (+4, =3, -3).^[8]

In 2010, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title three year later.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ratings Progress Chart: Heredia Serrano, Carla . ratings.fide.com . 23 November 2021.
2. Web site: La Gran Maestra Carla Heredia triunfa en Dallas . JMB . 6 September 2018 . 5 December 2018.
3. Web site: OlimpBase :: World Girls' Junior Chess Championship :: Heredia Serrano, Carla . olimpbase.org . 2018-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181205193307/http://www.olimpbase.org/players-ind/v/v3vd7zdm-wu20g.html . 2018-12-05 . dead.
4. Web site: All u need is Chess!: Biografia Carla Heredia Serrano .
5. Web site: 2010 FIDE Knockout Matches : World Chess Championship (women) . mark-weeks.com.
6. Web site: OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Carla Heredia Serrano . olimpbase.org.
7. Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Women . chess-results.com.
8. Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women . chess-results.com.