| Anya Corke | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Anya Sun Corke |
| Country | England Hong Kong |
| Born | September 12, 1990 California, United States |
| Title | Woman Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2241 (November 2011) |
| Peak rating | 2301 (October 2008) |
Anya Sun Corke (born 12 September 1990 in California, USA) is a Woman Grandmaster and the top chess player from Hong Kong who is currently playing for England.
She earned the title with her performance in 36th Chess Olympiad, playing for the Hong Kong men's team.[1]
She was the 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 Hong Kong National Champion (for men and women), thought to be one of the youngest national champions ever. She is almost certainly the only woman to win three consecutive national federation 'men's' championships.
She was the British Junior Under-11 Champion in 2002, and the Under-12 Champion in 2003; the first girl to win either of these age groups.
In August 2004, she became joint British U-14 Champion (with Xi Yang Guo and Dan Hall).
In December 2004 she won the Asian Youth Girls U-14 Championship.
In August 2005 she won the second annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls under 19.[2]
In 2009 she enrolled at Wellesley College as a first-year student.[3]
Her photograph was used in blogs made 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.[4] DAP and their supporters then contacted Anya Corke to obtain an official denial that she knows Lim Guan Eng's son.[5][6] The original photo used in this controversy had the chess board cropped out.