Career
She played for Hong Kong, where she was the top ranked chess player, until 2009. Corke earned the WGM title with her performance in the 36th Chess Olympiad, playing for the Hong Kong men"s team 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.
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 2013, she graduated from Wellesley College summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Russian and Philosophy. In 2014, she started a Doctor of Philosophy program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.
Directory of American Philosophers and their supporters then contacted Anya Corke to obtain an official denial that she knows Lim Guan Engineer"s son. She confirmed that the allegations were false, and that the photo was used without her knowledge or consent.
The original photo used in this controversy was stolen from an article on the website ChessBase News, and had the chess board cropped out.