Anna Cramling

Anna Yolanda Cramling Bellón (born 30 April 2002) is a Swedish-Spanish chess player, Twitch live streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM).

Cramling earned the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 2018 at age 15, the same year she reached her peak rating.

In 2018, she defeated Renier Castellanos Rodriguez, a Spanish International Master (IM) with a FIDE rating of 2498 at the time.

When she was young, she typically accompanied her parents to chess tournaments because her only regular babysitter was her maternal grandfather, who lived in Sweden.

[12] 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.

[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.

[a][20] Cramling first reached a rating of 2000 in June 2016 at age 14 after competing in the Hasselbacken Chess Open in Stockholm.

[3][23] In early 2017, Cramling played the Masters competition in Gibraltar, during which she drew a game against her father.

[7] She gained about another 200 points in early 2018 to reach her career-best rating of 2175 by virtue of good performances across four tournaments.

[29][30] During the Open Internacional Villa de Benasque in Spain in July 2018, Cramling again defeated Renier Castellanos Rodriguez, a Spanish International Master (IM) rated 2498.

[32] In contrast, she underperformed in the youth championships and finished in 59th place out of 90 competitors compared to her seed of 30th, which led to her rating declining to below 2000.

[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.

[13][36] 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.

[37] As the highest-rated player on her team, she played board one, winning five games, drawing two, and losing two, for a total of six out of a possible nine points.

Pia decided not to participate after Swedish Chess Federation manager Anders Wengholm did not select Bellón López as the women's team captain.

[40][41] In 2022, Cramling played board 3 in the 44th Chess Olympiad individually scoring 5/10 (+3-3=4), giving her a TPR of 2099.

Cramling has a strong preference for playing 1.d4 (the Queen's Pawn Game) with the white pieces over any other first move.

[47] In the first round of the Reykjavík Open on March 15, 2024, Cramling lost to Grand Master Platon Galperin who played "The Cow" against her.

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.