María Carolina Luján (born May 13, 1985 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chess player holding the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
Career Luján won three gold medals at the Pan American Youth Chess Championships: in the under-10 girls' division in 1995Blumenau 1995 - 7° Campeonato Panamericano u10 (girls), BrasilBase and in the under-12 girls' in 1996Laguna 1996 - 8° Campeonato Panamericano u12 (girls), BrasilBase and 1997.Itapirubá 1997 - 9° Campeonato Panamericano u12 (girls), BrasilBase
She has won the Argentine Women's Chess Championship five times (in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2015IM Carolina Lujan wins 2015 Argentinian Women’s Championship Chess Daily News).
Luján competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2004 where she was eliminated by the eventual runner-up Ekaterina Kovalevskaya in round one, the Women's World Chess Championship 2006 where she was eliminated by tournament runner-up Alisa Galliamova in round two, the Women's World Chess Championship 2012 where she was eliminated by Anna Zatonskih in round one, and the Women's World Chess Championship 2015 where she was knocked out by Alisa Galliamova in round two.World Chess Championship for Women Mark Weeks, www.mark-weeks.com
Luján has represented Argentina, on board one of the women's team, in seven Chess Olympiads from 2002 to 2014. Her best results were at the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled in 2002, where she scored 8½/13 and finished 11th, and the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul in 2012, where she scored 6/9 with a performance rating of 2455, to finish 13th on board one.Carolina Luján OlimpBase
Luján earned the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in May 2005 for her results at the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled 2002, the American Continental Chess Championship in Buenos Aires 2003, and Ciudad de Chacabuco tournament in Buenos Aires 2004.Carolina Lujan WGM Application FIDE 2nd quarter Presidential Board Meeting, 14–15 May 2005, Doha, Qatar, www.fide.com She earned the open International Master (IM) title in January 2007, for her results at the American Continental Chess Championship 2003, Vila de Sort 2006, and Ciutat de Balaguer 2006.Carolina Lujan IM Application FIDE 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting, 27–28 January 2007, Antalya, Turkey, www.fide.com
She won the Mediterranean Flowers WGM tournament in Rijeka 2008,WGM Tournament 'Mediterranean Flowers' Rijeka FIDE Tournament Report, www.fide.com the Graz WGM tournament in 2010,Graz WGM tournament FIDE Tournament Report, www.fide.com and jointly won the Pan American Women's Championship in Campinas, Brazil in 2010,Campeonato Pan Americano Feminino 2010 FIDE Tournament Report, www.fide.com amongst others. In that year she won the Konex Award as one of the five best Chess Player of the last decade in Argentina.
Luján won the 2014 American Continental Women's Chess Championship in Buenos Aires.
References
External links
Maria Carolina Lujan chess games at 365Chess.com
Margulis, Alejandro. "Ninguno quiere perder con una mujer" , Clarín.com