Melissa Greeff
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 April 1994 Cape Town, South Africa |
| Chess career | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster (2009) |
| Peak rating | 2126 (February 2013) |
Melissa Greeff (born 15 April 1994) is a South African-Canadian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She earned the WGM title in 2009.[1]
Biography
[edit]In 2007, in Windhoek, Melissa ranked 5th in the African Women's Chess Championship.[2] In 2009, she played for South Africa in the World Girls' Junior Chess Championship and ranked 35th place.[3] Later on in the same year, she won the African Women's Chess Championship in Tripoli.[4] In 2010, she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Humpy Koneru.[5] In 2011, in Maputo, she ranked 4th in African Women's Chess Championship.[6]
Melissa Greeff played for South Africa:
- in the Women's Chess Olympiad participated 3 times (2008-2012);[7]
- in the All-Africa Games chess tournament participated in 2007 and won team silver medal.[8]
In 2007, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and then received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title two years later.
In 2011, she became a FIDE Instructor.[1]
Since 2014, she has rarely played in chess tournaments. Melissa moved to Canada where she studied robotics and engineering at the University of Toronto.[9][10] She had worked with Angela Schoellig on vision-based path-following controllers for UAVs during GPS-denied flight.[11] She has since worked on several other aspects of robotics, engineering, and mathematics.[12] Since 2019, she teaches first-year linear algebra at the University of Toronto.[13]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Greeff, Melissa". ratings.fide.com.
- ↑ "OlimpBase :: 4th African Women's Chess Championship, Windhoek 2007". www.olimpbase.org.
- ↑ "OlimpBase :: World Girls' Junior Chess Championship :: Greeff, Melissa". www.olimpbase.org. Archived from the original on 5 December 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ↑ "OlimpBase :: 5th African Women's Chess Championship, Tripoli 2009". www.olimpbase.org.
- ↑ "2010 FIDE Knockout Matches : World Chess Championship (women)". www.mark-weeks.com.
- ↑ "OlimpBase :: 6th African Women's Chess Championship, Maputo 2011". www.olimpbase.org.
- ↑ "OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Melissa Greeff". www.olimpbase.org.
- ↑ "OlimpBase :: All-Africa Games (chess - women) :: Melissa Greeff". www.olimpbase.org.
- ↑ "Student Profile: Melissa Greeff - Living an Adventurous Journey". Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering.
- ↑ "Melissa Greeff - Teaching Assistant - University of Toronto".
- ↑ "Team | Dynamic Systems Lab | Prof. Angela Schoellig".
- ↑ "Melissa Greeff". scholar.google.ca.
- ↑ https://ca.linkedin.com/in/melissagreeff [self-published source]
External links
[edit]- Melissa Greeff rating card at FIDE
- Melissa Greeff player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Melissa Greeff chess games at 365Chess.com
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Cape Town
- South African female chess players
- South African chess players
- Chess Woman Grandmasters
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- African Games silver medalists in chess
- University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering alumni
- Chess players at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- African Games silver medalists for South Africa
- 21st-century South African sportswomen
- Academic staff of the University of Toronto