Sabrina Vega (chess player) explained

Sabrina Vega Gutiérrez
Birth Date:	28 February 1987
Birth Place:	Las Palmas, Spain
International Master (2013) Woman Grandmaster (2007)
Peakrating:	2427 (June 2017)
Fideid:	2219026

Sabrina Vega Gutiérrez (born 28 February 1987 in Las Palmas) is a Spanish chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

Chess career

From 1996 to 2007, Vega participated in European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age categories. She fulfilled a Women's Grandmaster norm in Mondariz (2005/06), Lorce (2007) and La Massana (2007).^[1] Vega twice in a row won Belgrad chess tournaments (2013, 2014).^{[2] [3]}

Vega has played for Spain in seven Chess Olympiads (2004, 2008–2016).^[4] Vega has played for Spain in six European Team Chess Championships (2005-2015).^[5]

She has been eight times Spanish Women's Champion winning the title in 2008, 2012, 2015,^[6] 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. In 2016, in Mamaia, Vega won silver medal in European Individual Women Chess Championship.

Her elder sister, Belinda Vega Gutierrez, started playing chess some years after her, and is a Woman International Master.^[7]

External links

• • Sabrina Vega Gutiérrez chess games at 365Chess.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: FIDE Title Applications (GM, IM, WGM, WIM, IA, FA, IO). Administrator.
2. Web site: WGM Sabrina Vega Gutierrez wins the tournament in Belgrade. Anton. Mihailov.
3. Web site: WGM Sabrina Vega Gutierrez wins another trophy in Belgrade - Chessdom.
4. Web site: OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Sabrina Vega Gutiérrez. Wojciech. Bartelski.
5. Web site: OlimpBase :: European Women's Team Chess Championship :: Sabrina Vega Gutiérrez. Wojciech. Bartelski.
6. Web site: Sabrina Gutiérrez Vega es la Campeona de España 2008. 13 August 2008.
7. Web site: Flores . Tatiana . "Chess teaches you so much!": An interview with IM Sabrina Vega . . 1 March 2022 . en . 26 July 2021.