Anya Corke
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Anya Sun Corke (born 12 September 1990 in California, USA) is an American-born English chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for Hong Kong, where she was the top ranked chess player, until 2009.<ref>Player transfers in 2009, FIDE</ref>
Career
Corke earned the WGM title with her performance in the 36th Chess Olympiad, playing for the Hong Kong men's team.<ref>Article about the Susan Polgar National Invitation by ChessBase</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
She was the 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 Hong Kong National Champion (for men and women), one of the youngest national champions ever at the age of 13 years and 9 months.
She was the British Junior Under-11 Champion in 2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the Under-12 Champion in 2003,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the first girl to win either of these age groups. In 2004, she became joint British U-14 Champion.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In December 2004, she won the Asian Youth Girls U-14 Championship in Singapore.<ref>Asian Youth Girls U-14, FIDE</ref>
In August 2005, she jointly won with Alisa Melekhina and Abby Marshall the second annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls under-19.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Corke represented the England Women's team at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the 2013 European Team Championship in Warsaw, Poland.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life and education
In 2013, Corke graduated from Wellesley College summa cum laude with a B.A. in Russian and Philosophy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2014, she started a Ph.D. program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She obtained an M.A. and M.Phil Slavic Languages and Literatures (specializing in Russian).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2019, Corke started the J.D. program at Yale Law School.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Corke is married and lives in the United States with her husband.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Media
Her photograph was misappropriated by supporters of Barisan Nasional, the ruling political party of Malaysia, to depict the victim in a controversy alleging sexual misconduct by the son of Lim Guan Eng, who is one of the leaders of DAP, a Malaysian opposition party.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> DAP and their supporters then contacted Anya Corke to obtain an official denial that she knows Lim Guan Eng's son; she confirmed that the allegations were false, and that the photo was used without her knowledge or consent.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The original photo used in this controversy was stolen from an article on the website ChessBase News, and had the chess board cropped out.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
References
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- Chess Woman Grandmasters
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- Hong Kong chess players
- English chess players
- English female chess players
- American emigrants to Hong Kong
- American female chess players
- Wellesley College alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Yale Law School alumni
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- 21st-century American chess players