Vyanla Punsalan
Vyanla M. Punsalan is a New Zealand chess Woman FIDE Master (WFM), and the 2022 New Zealand Women's Chess Champion
Chess career
In 2022 Punsalan won New Zealand Women's Chess Championship. In 2023 she ranked in 3rd place in Oceania Zonal Chess tournament.In 2023, Punsalan participated in single-elimination Women's Chess World Cup in Baku, losing in the first round to Azerbaijani Woman Grandmaster Ulviyya Fataliyeva.
Punsalan played for New Zealand in the Women's Chess Olympiads:
- In 2018, at second board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Batumi.
- In 2022, at second board in the 44th Chess Olympiad (women) in Chennai.