Pepita Ferrer Lucas


Pepita Ferrer Lucas was a Spanish chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master. She was an eight-time Spanish Women's Chess Champion.

Biography

From mid-1950s to mid 1980s, Ferrer Lucas was one of Spanish leading women chess players. In the Spanish Women's Chess Championships she won eight gold and two silver medals. Also she four times won the Catalonia Women's Chess Championships.
Ferrer Lucas twice participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments: in 1973, Menorca she ranked at 14th place, but in 1986, in Zeleznovodsk she stayed at 16th place.
Pepita Ferrer Lucas played for Spain in the Women's Chess Olympiads:
In 1974, she was awarded the FIDE International Women Master title. Ferrer Lucas was the first Spanish chess player to receive this title.