Anya Corke
Anya Sun Corke is an American-born English chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster. She played for Hong Kong, where she was the top ranked chess player, until 2009.
Career
Corke earned the WGM title with her performance in the 36th Chess Olympiad, playing for the Hong Kong men's team.She was the 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 Hong Kong National Champion, one of the youngest national champions ever at the age of 13 years and 9 months.
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 2004, she became joint British U-14 Champion.
In December 2004, she won the Asian Youth Girls U-14 Championship in Singapore.
In August 2005, she jointly won with Alisa Melekhina and Abby Marshall the second annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls under-19.
Corke represented the England Women's team at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey, and the 2013 European Team Championship in Warsaw, Poland.
Personal life and education
In 2013, Corke graduated from Wellesley College summa cum laude with a B.A. in Russian and Philosophy.In 2014, she started a Ph.D. program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She obtained an M.A. and M.Phil Slavic Languages and Literatures.
In 2019, Corke started the J.D. program at Yale Law School.
Corke is married and lives in the United States with her husband.