| Melissa Greeff | |
| Country: | South Africa |
| Birth Date: | 15 April 1994 |
| Birth Place: | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Woman Grandmaster (2009) | |
| Peakrating: | 2126 (February 2013) |
| Fideid: | 14301504 |
Melissa Greeff (born 15 April 1994) is a South African-Canadian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She earned the WGM title in 2009.[1]
In 2007, in Windhoek, Melissa ranked 5th in the African Women's Chess Championship.[2] In 2009, she played for South Africa in the World Girls' Junior Chess Championship and ranked 35th place.[3] Later on in the same year, she won the African Women's Chess Championship in Tripoli.[4] In 2010, she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Humpy Koneru.[5] In 2011, in Maputo, she ranked 4th in African Women's Chess Championship.[6]
Melissa Greeff played for South Africa:
In 2007, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and then received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title two years later.
In 2011, she became a FIDE Instructor.[1]
Since 2014, she has rarely played in chess tournaments. Melissa moved to Canada where she studied robotics and engineering at the University of Toronto.[9] [10] She had worked with Angela Schoellig on vision-based path-following controllers for UAVs during GPS-denied flight.[11] She has since worked on several other aspects of robotics, engineering, and mathematics.[12] Since 2019, she teaches first-year linear algebra at the University of Toronto.[13]