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Torre Memorial
The Torre Memorial is an annual chess tournament played in honour of the chess legend Carlos Torre Repetto (1905–1978). It is played in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. The first edition was played in 1987, and from a relatively weak tournament, it has now grown into a strong international tournament. Winners : References *Results from The Week in Chess1998 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuniesky Quesada
Yuniesky Quesada Pérez (born July 31, 1984) is a Cuban-American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2005. Quesada is the fourth Cuban to surpass the 2600 Elo rating mark, which he did on the FIDE list of July 2010. He won the Cuban Chess Championship In the second part of the 19th century, Celso Golmayo Zúpide had been generally accepted as Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre. In 1912–1937 Cuban Championship as Copa Dewar occurred. Maria Teresa Mora was the first w ... in 2008 and 2011. In April 2015, Quesada won the Philadelphia Open edging out Ioan-Cristian Chirila on tiebreak score. Family His younger brother, Yasser Quesada Pérez, is also a Grandmaster. References External linksYuniesky Quesada Perezchess games at 365Chess.com * 1984 births Living people Cuban chess players American chess players Chess Grandmasters Cuban emigrants to the United States Sportspeople from Santa Clara, Cuba Webster Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ChessBase
ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess. Founded in 1986, it maintains and sells large-scale databases containing the moves of recorded chess games. The databases contain data from prior games and provide engine analyses of games. Endgame tablebases are also provided by the company. ChessBase's Indian YouTube channel ChessBase India has amassed more than 2.5 million YouTube subscribers and more than 2.5 billion total views as of December 2024. History Starting in 1983, Frederic Friedel and his colleagues put out a magazine ''Computer-schach und Spiele'' covering the emerging hobby of computer chess. In 1985, Friedel invited then world chess champion Garry Kasparov to his house. Kasparov mused about how a chess database would make it easier for him to prepare for specific opponents. Friedel began working with Bonn physicist Matthias Wüllenweber who created the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Week In Chess
''The Week in Chess'' (TWIC) is a chess news web site. It was founded in 1994 and is based in the United Kingdom. ''TWIC'' has been edited by Mark Crowther since its inception in 1994. It began as a weekly Usenet Usenet (), a portmanteau of User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP, Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Elli ... posting, with "TWIC 1" being posted to Usenet group rec.games.chess on 17 September 1994. Later it moved to Crowther's personal web site, then to chesscenter.com in 1997, and in 2012 it moved to theweekinchess.com. It contains both chess news, and all the game scores from major events. TWIC quickly became popular with professional chess players, because it allowed them to quickly get results and game scores, where previously they had relied on print publications. TWIC still exists as a weekly newsletter, although for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Martínez Alcántara
Jose Eduardo Martínez Alcántara (born 31 January 1999) is a Peruvian chess grandmaster who plays for Mexico. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018. Chess career Martínez won the U-18 World Championship in 2017 before going on to represent Peru in the 2018 Chess Olympiad. He won the Zonal Tournament of South America in Ecuador with 7.5 points out of 9, thus qualifying for the Chess World Cup 2019, where he was defeated by Dmitry Jakovenko in the first round. In the 6th Arica Open in 2019 he tied 2nd-8th place with Nikita Petrov, Deivy Vera Siguenas, Renato R. Quintiliano Pinto, Cristobal Henriquez Villagra, Salvador Alonso, and Diego Saul Rod Flores Quillas. In 2021, Martinez tied for first place at the U.S. Masters Chess Championship The U.S. Masters Championship is an official national chess championship sanctioned by US Chess that has been held 27 times since 1982. The event is a Swiss tournament usually restricted to players who have establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera
Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera (born 26 December 2000) is a Cuban chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2019. As of August 2023, he is ranked third in Cuba. Career In 2018, he won the 30th Carlos Torre Memorial, finishing with 7/9 points and beating Lelys Stanley Martinez Duany, Yuri González Vidal, and Evgeny Shtembuliak on tie-break. In 2009, he won the 31st Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial, again scoring 7/9 points and beating on tie-break Luis Fernando Ibarra Chami, Elier Miranda Mesa, and Bartłomiej Macieja. In 2022, he won the Zonal 2.3 tournament in San Pedro de Macorís with a score of 7.5/9. He played in the Chess World Cup 2019, where he was defeated by Peter Svidler in the first round. He has also played in the Chess World Cup 2021, losing to Vojtěch Plát Vojtěch Plát (born 23 January 1994) is a Czech chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aryam Abreu Delgado
Aryam Abreu Delgado (born 9 July 1978) is a Cuban chess Grandmaster (2008). Best results: 2nd at Albariño International Open in Cambados, October 2005; 1st at the Villa de Mislata Open in Spain 2005; 4th in the Cuban Championship 2007; 1st-2nd at the Capablanca Memorial Open 2008; 1st at the Villa de Bilbao Rapid 2008. His best Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American chess master and physics professor. The Elo system wa ... was 2502 in 2008. References External links * Chess Grandmasters Living people Cuban chess players 1978 births {{Cuba-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fidel Corrales Jimenez
Fidel Corrales Jimenez (born July 7, 1987) is a Cuban-American chess Grandmaster. Chess career In 2009 Jimenez shared first place with Alexander Shabalov in the American Continental Chess Championship. He played in the Chess World Cup 2009 and Chess World Cup 2011, in both cases representing the Cuban Chess Federation, being defeated by Alexander Areshchenko and Judit Polgár Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the Strong (chess), strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years ..., respectively, in the first rounds. In 2023, Jimenez won the World Chess Open in Philadelphia. Personal life His sister is Zenia Corrales Jiménez. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jimenez, Fidel Corrales 1987 births Living people American chess players Chess Grandmasters Sportspeople from Pinar del Río Cuban chess players Cub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Cordova
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Emilio may refer to: * Emilio Navaira, a Mexican-American singer often called "Emilio" * Emilio (given name) * ''Emilio'' (film), a 2008 film by Kim Jorgensen See also * Emílio (other) * Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is a variant of the given names Emil (other), Emil, Emilio (other), Emilio and Emílio (other), Emílio, and may refer to: *Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor *Aimilios Papathanas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Onischuk
Alexander Vasylovych Onischuk born September 3, 1975) is a chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994, and won the 2006 U.S. championship. Career In 1991, Onischuk represented the Soviet Union and took 2nd place in the World under 16 championship. In 1993 he was fourth in the world junior championship, tying for first and finished second on tie-breaks two years later. In 1993 he became International Master, and in 1994 Grandmaster. In 2000 he won the Ukrainian Championship. He represented Ukraine in the Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in FIDE Onli ... in 1994, 1996 and 1998. Onischuk immigrated to the United States in 2001. He competed in the US Championship, winning the tournament in 2006, finishing 2nd in 2007, 2008 and 2017 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lázaro Bruzón
Lázaro Bruzón Batista (born 2 May 1982 in Holguín) is a Cuban-American chess grandmaster. He is a former World Junior Champion, two-times American Continental champion, two-time Iberoamerican champion and six-time Cuban champion. Bruzón played for Cuba at the Chess Olympiads between 2000 and 2014. Career He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 2000. This achievement qualified him for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002. Bruzón won the Lausanne Young Masters, a knockout event, in 2001 by defeating Étienne Bacrot in the final. Later that year, at the end of November, he competed in the FIDE World Championship: after defeating Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in the first round, he was knocked out by Kiril Georgiev. In 2002, Bruzón won the 37th Capablanca Memorial (Elite group) and shared first place with compatriot Leinier Domínguez in the North Sea Cup. In January 2004, he won the Corus B tournament and thus earned a spot in the 2005 Corus A tournament. In June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Ivanchuk
Vasyl Mykhailovych Ivanchuk (; born March 18, 1969) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has been ranked at No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings three times (July 1991, July 1992, October 2007). Ivanchuk has won Linares, Wijk aan Zee, Tal Memorial, Gibraltar Masters and M-Tel Masters titles. He has also won the World Blitz Championship in 2007 and the World Rapid Championship in 2016. Career Early years Ivanchuk was born in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine. He won the 1987 European Junior Chess Championship in Groningen and first achieved international notice by winning the 1988 New York Open scoring 7½/9 points, ahead of a field of grandmasters. He tied for first place in the 1988 World Junior Chess Championship at Adelaide, but lost the title on tiebreak to Joël Lautier. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1988, and entered the world top 10 the same year. Reaches world elite Ivan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
