Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera (born 26 December 2000) is a Cuban
chess
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player. He was awarded the title of
Grandmaster (GM) by
FIDE
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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
Evgeny Shtembuliak (, born 12 March 1999, Chornomorsk, Odesa Oblast) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019.
Shtembuliak was born in Chornomorsk near Odesa, but sometimes has listed the latter as hi ...
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
Bartłomiej (Bartek) Macieja (born 4 October 1977) is a Polish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (GM).
He is married to Mexican chess master Alejandra Guerrero Rodríguez.
He currently serves as the head ...
. In 2022, he won the Zonal 2.3 tournament in
San Pedro de Macorís
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with a score of 7.5/9.
He played in the
Chess World Cup 2019, where he was defeated by
Peter Svidler
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion.
Svidler has competed in three World Championshi ...
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
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in the first round, and the
Chess World Cup 2023, where he defeated
Alisher Suleymenov in the first round but lost to
Bassem Amin in the second round.
References
External links
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Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrerachess games at 365Chess.com
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2000 births
Living people
Chess Grandmasters
Cuban chess players
Sportspeople from Camagüey
Chess Olympiad competitors
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