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Anya Sun Corke (born 12 September 1990 in California, USA) is an American-born English chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for Hong Kong, where she was the top ranked chess player, until 2009. Player transfers in 2009, FIDE
She was the 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 Hong Kong National Champion (for men and women), one of the youngest national champions ever at the age of 13 years and 9 months.
She was the British Junior Under-11 Champion in 2002 and the Under-12 Champion in 2003, the first girl to win either of these age groups. In 2004, she became joint British U-14 Champion.
In December 2004, she won the Asian Youth Girls U-14 Championship in Singapore. Asian Youth Girls U-14, FIDE
In August 2005, she jointly won with Alisa Melekhina and Abby Marshall the second annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls under-19.
Corke represented the England Women's team at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey, and the 2013 European Team Championship in Warsaw, Poland.
In 2014, she started a Ph.D. program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She obtained an M.A. and M.Phil Slavic Languages and Literatures (specializing in Russian).
In 2019, Corke started the Juris Doctor at Yale Law School.
Corke is married and lives in the United States with her husband.
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