[HIGHLIGHTS] She was a top chess player, was in a convent and now campaigns with her dog to be mayor

Claudia Amura was the first woman to achieve the title of American Chess Grandmaster. She now campaigns to be mayor of Villa Merlo, in San Luis, accompanied by her dog "Bala" Amura came to Merlo to play the Pan American sub 20 in the early 90s.

After six months of prayer and teaching chess to the nuns, she left with the conviction that she wanted to start a family and that she still had much to offer the sport. "I needed an answer," she says.