Sonia Zepeda | |
Full Name: | Sonia Guadalupe Zepeda Cortéz |
Country: | El Salvador |
Birth Date: | 1981 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | San Salvador, El Salvador |
Woman International Master (2007) | |
Rating: | 2066 (January 2012) |
Peakrating: | 2136 (July 2009) |
Fideid: | 6700241 |
Sonia Guadalupe Zepeda Cortéz (born 26 January 1981) is a Salvadoran chess player. Zepeda was taught to play chess by her father Rafael Zepeda (peak Elo rating 2069). Her younger sister Lorena Zepeda is also a chess player. Sonia Zepeda was trained by International Master .[1]
She has won the Salvadoran Women's Chess Championship 5 times (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009) and has won the Central American Women's Chess Championship twice. She has been a part of the El Salvador national chess team for four Olympics.[2] [3]