Anna Cramling
Anna Cramling | |||||||
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Woman FIDE Master (2018) | |||||||
FIDE rating | 2115 (March 2024) | ||||||
Peak rating | 2175 (March 2018) | ||||||
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Years active | 2020–present | ||||||
Genre | Gaming | ||||||
Games | Chess | ||||||
Followers | 402,000+ | ||||||
Associated acts | Chess.com | ||||||
Last updated: 1 March 2024 | |||||||
YouTube information | |||||||
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Subscribers | 925,000+[2] | ||||||
Total views | 297+ million[2] | ||||||
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Last updated: 24 March 2024 |
Anna Yolanda Cramling Bellón (born 30 April 2002) is a Spanish-Swedish
Cramling grew up in a chess-playing family. Her mother is Swedish grandmaster (GM) Pia Cramling, and her father is Spanish grandmaster (GM) Juan Manuel Bellón López. She began playing chess at age three in Spain, moving with her family to Sweden at age eleven and switching federations from Spain to Sweden soon afterwards.[1][5] She participated in several European Youth, World Cadets, World Youth, and World Junior Chess Championships in different age divisions from 2015 until 2019. When representing Sweden in international team competitions, she has played on the same team with her mother while her father has served as the team captain.
Cramling earned the title of
Cramling began streaming in early 2020, focusing on chess content. Her mother and father are both occasional guests on her channel. About a year later, Cramling signed with the Panda esports organization as their first chess streamer.
Early life and background
Cramling was born on 30 April 2002 in
Chess career
Cramling earned her first FIDE rating in February 2013 at age 10, starting out at 1519 after playing the Amateur A competition at the Gibraltar Chess Festival.[13][14] She won one out of four games against rated opponents, defeating Raymond Kearsley, an English player rated 1772.[14] The following year, 2014, she won the women's prize in the same Amateur A competition at Gibraltar. Her prize drew media attention because her parents regularly competed at the event and she had regularly been attending even as an infant.[15][16] This performance also helped her reach a rating of 1600.[13][17]
Cramling had a large increase in rating in early 2015 at age 12 when she gained over 300 rating points across four tournaments in two months to surpass a rating of 1900.[13] These tournaments included the Rilton under-1800 tournament in Stockholm around New Year's Day and the Amateur A and Amateur B competitions at Gibraltar.[18][19] At the end of 2015, Cramling participated in the girls under-14 division of the World Cadets Chess Championship in Porto Carras, Greece. As the 58th seed out of 125 participants, she finished slightly better than her seeding in 54th place with a score of 6/11.[a][20] Cramling first reached a rating of 2000 in June 2016 at age 14 after competing in the Hasselbacken Chess Open in Stockholm. Her best victory in that tournament was against her compatriot Michael Backman, who was rated 2161.[13][21]
In September 2016, 14-year old Cramling represented Sweden in the
Cramling earned the
After that decline in rating in late 2018, Cramling was able to regain most of her lost rating points in 2019, reaching a year-high rating of 2164 in October.[13] Her best tournament of the year was the European Youth Championships.[13] As the 33rd seed in the under-18 girls' division, Cramling finished in 13th place with a score of 5+1⁄2/9, gaining 103 rating points.[34] Her best victory in the tournament was against Govhar Beydullayeva, an Azerbaijani WFM rated 2307.[35]
2020s onward
Since 2020, Cramling has played in few competitions, partly because of her becoming a
In September 2022, Cramling represented Sweden (alongside her mother Pia) in the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India, playing board 3 and competing in 10 of the 11 rounds, winning three games and drawing four.[4]
From 10-21 November 2023, Cramling played in the 2023 European Team Chess Championship as a member of the women's team from Sweden, which finished the tournament ranked 22 out of 32 entrants.[37] As the highest-rated player on her team, she played board one, winning 5 games, drawing 2, and losing 2, for a total of 6 out of a possible 9 points.[38]
Team competitions
Cramling has represented Sweden in the women's divisions at one
Playing style
Cramling has a strong preference for playing 1.d4 (the
"I think that I play very aggressively, especially when I play online. It's just more fun! I'd say I got that from my father, as he's definitely a very aggressive and tactical chess player. In that sense I play a lot like him, and in terms of openings, I play a lot that are similar to my mother's openings, because she used to teach me a lot of them. So I guess I'd say I play my mum's openings with my dad's style!"[10]
"The Cow"
In 2023, Cramling pioneered a new chess opening which she named "The Cow", a variation of Van 't Kruijs Opening that is reminiscent of the Hippopotamus Defence, although playable with either the black or white pieces. The opening variation is characterized by white opening with "1. e3 2. d3 3. Ne2 4. Nd2 5. Nb3 6. Ng3", regardless of how black responds.[45]
In March 2024, chess.com added a version of this opening to its list of recognized opening variations.[dubious ] They characterized the canonical moves as "1. e3 d5 2. d3 e5 3. Ne2 Bd6 4. Ng3 Nf6 5. Nd2".[46]
Streaming career
Cramling launched her own Twitch channel in early 2020 after having the chance to commentate with her mother Pia on the 2020 Women's World Chess Championship match between Ju Wenjun and Aleksandra Goryachkina earlier in the year. On occasion, her mother joins her on Twitch to play games or give advice. On rarer occasions, her father does as well.[7][47][48] After about a year of streaming on Twitch, she signed with the Panda esports team, becoming their first chess streamer as well as the first Swedish chess player to sign with such an esports organisation.[36]
Awards and nominations
Year | Ceremony | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | The Streamer Awards | Best Chess Streamer | Nominated | [49] |
2024 | Nominated | [50] |
Notes
- ^ 6 points in 11 games. (A win is 1 point, a draw is a ½ point, and a loss is 0 points.)
- ^ 7 wins, 4 losses, 0 draws
- ^ 3 wins, 3 losses, 4 draws. This includes: 3 wins against Cyrel Terubea (1450), Danielle Bedrosian (1662), and Hng Mei-Xian Eunice (1823); 4 draws against WIM Lina Nassr (2011), WGM Masha Klinova (2251), WIM Rosa Ratsma (2226), and WIM Sahithi Varshini M (2312); 3 losses against IM Marta Garcia Martin (2305), IM Szidonia Vajda (2313) and WGM Karolina Pilsova (2230)
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External links
- Anna Cramling rating card at FIDE
- Anna Cramling player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Anna Cramling on Twitch
- Anna Cramling's channel on YouTube
- Anna Cramling Español's channel on YouTube(In Spanish)