Alberto David (born 26 March 1970) is a Luxembourgish-Italian

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grandmaster. He is a three-time Italian Chess Champion.

Chess career

David was born in Milan in 1970, and in 1974 moved with his parents to Luxembourg, where he learned to play chess a year later. He attained some success at the youth level but it was not until he finished his philosophy studies in London in 1992 that his chess career began. He earned his grandmaster title in 1998, becoming Luxembourg's first grandmaster. He competed for Luxembourg at the

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s of

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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and

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

, playing on the each time. In 2002 he won the individual silver medal with a score of 84.6% (+10–1=2). In 2012 he obtained Italian citizenship and transferred to the

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in July of the same year. He competed for Italy on board 2 at the 2014 Olympiad. David's tournament victories include the HZ Tournament in

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in 1999, the 1st NAO Chess Club GM tournament in

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in 2003, the Paris Chess Championship in 2003 and 2005, and the inaugural

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in 2011. David won the

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in 2012 and 2016 (after winning the playoff against

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) and again in 2019. In 2022 he won the Festival International des Jeunes tournament in

after winning on tie-break with Niels Willems.

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Alberto David
chess games at 365Chess.com * 1970 births Living people Chess Grandmasters Luxembourgian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Italian emigrants to Luxembourg Italian chess players Naturalised citizens of Italy Sportspeople from Milan {{Italy-chess-bio-stub