Ana Filipa Baptista

Portuguese chess player

Ana Filipa Baptista
Baptista in 2008
Full name	Ana Filipa Neto Sintra Baptista
Country	Portugal
Born	(1990-01-24) 24 January 1990 (age 34)
Title	Woman FIDE Master (2007)
FIDE rating	2008 (June 2019)
Peak rating	2180 (July 2009)

Ana Filipa Neto Sintra Baptista^[1] (born 24 January 1990) is a Portuguese chess player who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM, 2007). She is a three-time winner the Portuguese Women Chess Championship (2008, 2009, 2015).

Chess career

In 2003, in Graz, she won the European Communities Girls' Chess Championship in the U14 age group.^[2]

In Portuguese women's chess championships Baptista won three gold (2007/08, 2008/09, 2015/16), and three bronze (2000/01, 2001/02, 2006/07) medals.^[3]

Baptista played for Portugal in the Women's Chess Olympiads:^[4]

In 2004, at first reserve board in the 36th Chess Olympiad (women) in Calvià (+4, =2, -3),
In 2006, at first reserve board in the 37th Chess Olympiad (women) in Turin (+3, =4, -2),
In 2008, at third board in the 38th Chess Olympiad (women) in Dresden (+7, =2, -2),
In 2012, at third board in the 40th Chess Olympiad (women) in Istanbul (+4, =0, -4),
In 2016, at first board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Baku (+3, =1, -4).

References

^ "Master thesis". repositorio.ul.pt (in Portuguese). Universidade de Lisboa. 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2020. Baptista, Ana Filipa Neto Sintra
^ Herzog, Heinz. "European Community Youth Chess Championship". Chess-Results.com.
^ FPX. "Federação Portuguesa de Xadrez - Feminino". fpx.pt. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Women's Chess Olympiads :: Ana Filipa Baptista". OlimpBase.org.