Melanie Buckley

{{short description|English chess player (born 1982)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Melanie Buckley | image = | caption = | country = England | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|7|31|df=yes}} | birth_place= | death_date = | death_place = | peakrating = 2184 (July 2002) | FideID = 406430 }}

'''Melanie H. Buckley''' (born 31 July 1982) is an English chess player, British Women's Chess Championship winner (2001).

==Biography== In 1996, Melanie Buckley won British Girl's Chess Championship in U15 age group. In 2001, in Scarborough she won British Women's Chess Championship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/britchamps.html|title=John Saunders's Chess Pages: British Chess Champions, 1904 to present|website=www.saund.co.uk}}</ref>

Melanie Buckley played for England in the Women's Chess Olympiad:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/i0siewog.html|title=OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Melanie Buckley|first=Wojciech|last=Bartelski|website=www.olimpbase.org}}</ref> * In 2004, at first reserve board in the 36th Chess Olympiad (women) in Calvià (+2, =2, -1).

Since 2007, she has rarely participated in chess tournaments.

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==External links== *{{FIDE}} *{{chessgames player|id=48995}} *[https://www.365chess.com/players/Melanie_Buckley Melanie Buckley] chess games at 365Chess.com

{{DEFAULTSORT:Buckley, Melanie}} Category:1982 births Category:English female chess players Category:21st-century British chess players Category:English chess players Category:Chess Olympiad competitors Category:Living people Category:21st-century English sportswomen