Nastassja Matus

Nastassja Matus is thirteen years old and was born and lives in Minnesota. She started playing in chess tournaments when she was around six and a half, but only started playing "professionally" shortly before her first World Youth, when she was eight. Nastassja has gone to the World Youth five times and, last year, achieved second place in Girls Under 12, in Brazil. She also won Susan Polgar’s Girls Invitational Tournament last year and became National Master in October. Along with chess, Nastassja attends math classes at the University of Minnesota and will be starting calculus in September. She is also learning Spanish and likes to play the flute outside of school. In the summer, Nastassja really enjoys biking and swimming outside in the nice warm weather with friends.