Do you know Anna Cramling and her style of play?
Anna Cramling

Do you know Anna Cramling and her style of play?

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Cramling grew up in a chess-playing family. Her mother is Swedish grandmaster (GM) Pia Cramling and her father is Spanish grandmaster (GM) Juan Manuel Bellón López. She began playing chess at age three while living in Spain but later moved with her family to Sweden at age eleven, switching federations from Spain to Sweden soon after.She participated in several European Youth, World Cadets, World Youth, and World Junior Chess Championships in different age divisions from 2015 until 2019. When representing Sweden in international team competitions, she has played on the same team with her mother while her father has served as the team captain.

Cramling earned the title of Women Fide Master (WFM) in 2018 at age 15, the same year she reached her peak rating. In 2018, she defeated Renier Castellanos Rodriguez, a Spanish International Master (IM) with a Fide Rating of 2498 at the time.

Cramling began streaming in early 2020, focusing on chess content. Her mother and father are both occasional guests on her channel. About a year later, Cramling signed with the Panda esports organization as their first chess streamer.

Cramling has a strong preference for playing 1.d4 (the Queen's Pawn Game) with the white pieces over any other first move. Cramling believes she combines her mother's opening style with her father's aggressive style, saying, "I think that I play very aggressively, especially when I play online. It's just more fun! (laughs) I'd say I got that from my father, as he's definitely a very aggressive and tactical chess player. In that sense I play a lot like him, and in terms of openings, I play a lot that are similar to my mother's openings, because she used to teach me a lot of them. So I guess, I'd say I play my mum's openings with my dad's style!"