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13-Year-Old Canadian Girl Back Home Bringing the Silver Cup from the Pan American Women Chess 2008 NewswireToday - /newswire/ - North York, Ontario, Canada, 05/15/2008 - During May 5th-12th – 13-year-old Toronto girl, WFM Yuan, Yuanling represented Canada to play the Pan American Women Chess Championship 2008 in San Salvador and won the runner-up with score 6.5 over 9 rounds. 13-year-old Toronto girl, the youngest Canadian women Fide master Yuan, Yuanling represented Canada to play the Pan American Women Chess Championship 2008 in San Salvador during May 5th to 12th. After 9 rounds tough competition, she got 6.5 score and won the silver cup. WFM Yuanling is just 13 years old. She is the youngest women Fide master and currently ranked 2nd place of Canadian women chess by rating. When she was 9 year old in 2003, she represented Canada to play the World Youth Chess Championship and won 10th place in her age group. And this year, she represented Canada to play the continental women's championship during May 5th to May 12th in El Salvador, the country in the center-America. There are 28 players from North-America, Center-America and South-America in the tournament. WFM Yuan, Yuanling from Canada is the youngest player and ranked 7th by fide rating before the tournament. The tournament is very tough since there are 2 women Grandmasters, 4 women international masters and 6 women Fide masters participating the tournament. Canadian women Fide master Yuanling played all the women Grandmasters and the women international masters during the tournaments and defeated one women Grandmaster and two women International masters, drew with the first seed player Arribas Robaina, Maritza, a women Grandmaster from Cuba. Yuanling only lost two games to other two women International masters from Ecuador and Cuba. After 9 rounds chess games, Canadian Yuanling got 6.5 score over 9 and list 2nd place. In the meanwhile, she got 20 games women International master norm by achieving performance rating as high as 2302.