Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...
) is an Argentine
chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...
player who received the
FIDE title
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
In July 2007, he became the U14 Pan American Champion in Medellín, Colombia, achieving the title of FIDE Master.
In March 2009, he got his last International Master norm, in the ITT Sub 20 Projection, held at GEBA.
In May of the same year, he qualified for the first time in the Superior Argentine Championship (84th), played in La Plata, at the age of 15. In May 2011, he became the U20 South American Champion in Tarija , Bolivia.
Perez Ponsa became a Grandmaster in 2011, at the Grafica Yael tournament, at the age of 17.
In July 2014, at the 89th Argentine Superior Championship, he tied for first place and lost the tiebreaks against Rubén Felgaer.
In December, he got 1st place with in the San Luis International Open.
In May 2015, he qualified in the Continental of the Americas and played in the
Chess World Cup
The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body.
History
Three different formats have been used:
*In 2000 and 2002, it was a multi-stage tournament, with a group stage consisting of 24 players in fo ...
in September 2015. He tied 1-1 against GM
Leinier Domínguez
Leinier Domínguez Pérez (born September 23, 1983) is a Cuban and American chess grandmaster. A five-time Cuban champion, Domínguez was the world champion in blitz chess in 2008. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2002 and 2 ...
and was eliminated in the tiebreaks. In November, he won the II Magistral Aloas organized at the Palacio de las Aguas Corrientes.
In August 2016, he won the Magistral Copa Mercosur at Villa Martelli.
In September 2017, he became the Metropolitan Champion at Club Torre Blanca. In October of that year, he is Superior Argentine Runner-up, in the 92nd Argentine Championship held in Morón.
In April 2018, he won the Legislatura Cup played in the Buenos Aires Legislature.
In November, he got 1st place in the 25th Pro-AM Clarín Cup Open at Villa Martelli
On the February 1, 2019 list, he enters the FIDE Top 100 in both Blitz (2,646) and Rapid (2,655).
In August 2019, he got 1st place in the Mercosur Master Cup, at Villa Martelli.
In May 2021, he qualified in the Hybrid Continental of the Americas and participated for the second time in the
Chess World Cup
The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body.
History
Three different formats have been used:
*In 2000 and 2002, it was a multi-stage tournament, with a group stage consisting of 24 players in fo ...
in July 2021. This time, he tied 1-1 in the first round against GM Momchil Nikolov beating him on tiebreaks. In the second round, he lost 1.5-0.5 to GM
Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012 and 2015).
He has competed in five Candidates To ...
.
In November 2021, he won the 28th Open Pro-AM Copa Clarín at Villa Martelli.
In June 2022, in the 96th Argentine Championship held at the Club Argentino de Ajedrez, he tied for first place and became Superior Argentine Champion, beating GM Leonardo Tristán and Ariel Sorín in a triangular tiebreaker.
In October 2022, he played in the XII South American Games Asuncion 2022 and won 3 medals. In the individual competitions, he won the Bronze medal in Rapids. In the mixed competitions, he won a Silver medal in Blitz and a Gold medal in Rapid together with
Claudia Amura
Claudia Noemí Amura (born 26 August 1970) is an Argentinian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster.
Born in Buenos Aires, Amura learned how to play chess when she was seven years old.Three medallas for Ponsa
Olympiads
He represented Argentina in four
Chess Olympiads
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 2020 and ...
Argentine Championships
Awards
Premio Revelación Clarín (2009)
Premio Podio al Mejor Deportista de Zárate (2009 y 2011)
Premio Olimpia de Plata (2011)
Premio Jorge Newbery (2015).
In 2020 he was recognized with the
Konex Award
Konex Foundation Awards, or simply Konex Awards, are cultural awards from the Konex Foundation honouring Argentine cultural personalities.
History and purpose
Konex Awards are granted by the Konex Foundation, created in 1980 in Argentina. The p ...
- Diploma of Merit as one of the 5 best Argentine chess players of the last decade.
Other activities
Federico Perez Ponsa is a semi-professional
Age of Empires II
''Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings'' is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. Released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh in 2001, it is the second game in the ''Age of Empires'' s ...
player under nickname Fedex. He was, among others, a member of Argentina A at the 2020 2v2 Age of Empires II World Cup.