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Jemima Paulo
Angolan chess player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jemima Paulo, born in 2007, is an Angolan chess player and Women's FIDE Master. She became the African U-13 Champion in 2020 and the African U-16 Girls' Champion in 2022. The following year, she became the African mixed runner-up after finishing second in the African Junior Chess Championship.
She is ranked as Angola's top female player in 2024, with an ELO rating of 2039.
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Biography
She competes with the Ditrov School,[1] an Angolan chess group.
In 2020, she won the African Under-13 Championship, which qualified Angola for the World Championships,[2] and then represented her country at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3] In 2022, she won the African U-16 Girls' Championship.[1][4]
In 2023, she earned the title of African runner-up after finishing second in the African Junior Mixed Chess Championship,[5][6][7] notably defeating the coach of the Nigerian team, Rosemary Amadasun.[8] In 2024, she placed sixth in the African Women's Chess Championship, ahead of her compatriot, Ednasia Junior.[9]
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