{{Short description|Ecuadorian chess player (born 1977)}} {{Family name hatnote|Fierro|Baquero|lang=Spanish}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Martha Fierro | image = Martha Fierro Baquero.jpg | caption = Fierro in 2010 | birth_name = Martha Lorena Fierro Baquero | country = {{ECU}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|9|6}} | birth_place = Kingston, Rhode Island, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | title = International Master (2005)<br>Woman Grandmaster (2000) | FideID = 3600270 <!-- automatically displays current FIDE rating if 2400+ --> | peakrating = 2411 (April 2009) }}
'''Martha Lorena Fierro Baquero'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marticafierro.com/ |title=Martha Fierro's official website |website=Marticafierro.com |language=es |access-date=March 24, 2014 |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102202126/http://marticafierro.com/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> (born September 6, 1977) is an Ecuadorian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster, and FIDE International Organizer. She won the American Continental Women's Chess Championship in 2009.
Born in Kingston, Rhode Island, USA,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hoy.com.ec/libro5/martha/pag06.htm |title=Martha Fierro interview |website=Hoy.com.ec |language=es |access-date=March 24, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927015111/http://www.hoy.com.ec/libro5/martha/pag06.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref> Fierro has been Ecuador's strongest female chess player for many years, and has represented Ecuador in ten biennial Chess Olympiads from 1994 to 2012. In 1998 she played in the open section (with both male and female players), while in the other editions she took part in the women's tournament. Her best results were when she scored 9.5/13 in the 1996 Women's Chess Olympiad in Yerevan, and 7.5/8 in the 2008 Women's Chess Olympiad in Dresden, to win the silver medal on board 1 on both occasions.<ref>{{cite web |author=Wojciech Bartelski |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/v7h1dp5m.html |title=Women's Chess Olympiads :: Martha Fierro Baquero |work=OlimpBase |access-date=February 27, 2015}}</ref>
Fierro won twice the Pan American Under-18 Girls Championship (in 1994 and 1995) and three times the Pan American Under-20 Girls Championship (in 1995, 1996 and 1997).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brasilbase.pro.br/p.php |title=Campeonatos Panamericanos |work=BrasilBase |language=pt}}</ref> She took part in the first FIDE Women's Grand Prix series from 2009 to 2011.
Fierro is a vice president of FIDE<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fide.com/fide/directory/fide-officials.html?comid=1&task=committee |title=Presidential Board |work=FIDE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528184700/https://www.fide.com/fide/directory/fide-officials.html?comid=1&task=committee |archive-date=May 28, 2016}}</ref> and a chairperson for the FIDE Commission for Women's Chess (WOM).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fide.com/fide/directory/fide-commissions.html?comid=19&task=committee |title=Commission for Women's Chess (WOM) |work=FIDE |access-date=May 29, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528123103/https://www.fide.com/fide/directory/fide-commissions.html?comid=19&task=committee |archive-date=May 28, 2016}}</ref>
On 8 February 2021, she left the Italian city of Genoa, where she lived with her daughter, and went to Ecuador.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102202126/http://marticafierro.com/ |title=Martha Fierro's official website |date=January 2, 2014}} {{in lang|es}} * {{FIDE|name=Martha L. Fierro Baquero}} * {{365Chess.com player|Martha_Lorena_Fierro_Baquero}} * {{Chessgames.com player|64170|Martha Lorena Fierro Baquero}} * {{OlimpBase player|v7h1dp5m|Martha Fierro Baquero}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fierro, Martha}} Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:Naturalized citizens of Ecuador<!-- Category:Citizens of Ecuador through descent --> Category:Ecuadorian female chess players Category:Ecuadorian chess players Category:Chess International Masters Category:Chess Woman Grandmasters Category:Chess officials Category:People from South Kingstown, Rhode Island Category:21st-century Ecuadorian women Category:American people of Ecuadorian descent Category:Sportspeople of Ecuadorian descent