Africa-Press – Cape verde. She is only 17 years old and is the face of women’s chess in Cape Verde. She was national runner-up in 2022 and represented the country at the chess olympics in India. She learned the board game online, practiced in the school club and is now a national promise.
At the age of 15, Juliana Monteiro became interested in chess. Through the internet, through YouTube, she took the first steps to learn the board game.
“I watched the games of the great masters and found interesting the things they could do with just a 64-square board”, he says.
But it was at school that he started playing. The chess club at Escola Salesiana, in Mindelo, which I didn’t even know existed, was where Juliana participated in her first games, despite her initial fears.
But doubt soon turned to certainty. From the school’s chess club, he represented the country at the chess olympics in india.
Runner-up at 17
At the age of 17, the Mindelo student is also national vice-champion in chess, won last year in the first national women’s championship in the sport, held on the island of Sal, among 13 players.
Juliana is, therefore, the face of national women’s chess and as she says, she chose the game of life, of learning to make choices and deal with the consequences and she will “stay firm” in the sport, because curiosity has turned into a dream .
woman in chess
Chess is an emerging sport in Cape Verde. Its federation is only six years old and has 160 federated players, among them only 30 women. The president of the Cabo Verdean Chess Federation says that more women are wanted in the sport, so much so that they are exempt from fees, a way of reducing timid participation. In June, the second edition of the national women’s chess championship takes place.
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