Melissa Greeff (born 15 April 1994) is a South African-Canadian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She earned the WGM title in 2009.^[1]

In 2007, in Windhoek, Melissa ranked 5th in the African Women's Chess Championship.^[2] In 2009, she played for South Africa in the World Girls' Junior Chess Championship and ranked 35th place.^[3] Later on in the same year, she won the African Women's Chess Championship in Tripoli.^[4] In 2010, she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship by knock-out system and in the first round lost to Humpy Koneru.^[5] In 2011, in Maputo, she ranked 4th in African Women's Chess Championship.^[6]

Melissa Greeff played for South Africa:

• in the Women's Chess Olympiad participated 3 times (2008-2012);^[7]
• in the All-Africa Games chess tournament participated in 2007 and won team silver medal.^[8]

In 2007, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and then received the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title two years later.

In 2011, she became a FIDE Instructor.^[1]

Since 2014, she has rarely played in chess tournaments. Melissa moved to Canada where she studied robotics and engineering at the University of Toronto.^[9][10] She had worked with Angela Schoellig on vision-based path-following controllers for UAVs during GPS-denied flight.^[11] She has since worked on several other aspects of robotics, engineering, and mathematics.^[12] Since 2019, she teaches first-year linear algebra at the University of Toronto.^[13]

• Melissa Greeff rating card at FIDE
• Melissa Greeff player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Melissa Greeff chess games at 365Chess.com