Guillermo Vázquez Colman (born in Asuncion, 1997) is a Paraguayan

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player, who was awarded the title of

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in 2015 and the title of Grandmaster in 2022. He won the Paraguayan Chess Championship in 2010 and 2011, and hold the record of the youngest player ever to win the National Chess Tournament with 13 years old. He was part of the UTRGV (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) that won the President´s Cup (Final Four of Collegiate Chess) in 2019 and was part of the UTD (University of Texas Dallas) team that finished fourth in the Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup. He has also represented Paraguay 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 ...

, including the

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, where he finished on 4/10 on board 4,

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(5.5/9 on board 4),

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(6/9 on board 4), and the

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(6.5/11 on board 2). Vazquez won the Floripa Chess Open in 2020, just before the

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, and reached his first GM Norm He qualified to play in the

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. He won in the first round against grandmaster Nikita Meshkovs. In the second round, he lost against the eventual winner

Jan-Krzysztof Duda Jan-Krzysztof Duda (; born 26 April 1998) is a Polish Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. A Chess prodigy, prodigy, he achieved the grandmaster title in 2013 at the age of 15 years and . he is ranked No. 1 in Poland and No. 17 in the FIDE w ...

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Guillermo Vázquez
games at 365Chess.com * 1997 births Living people Paraguayan chess players 21st-century Paraguayan people Sportspeople from Asunción Chess Grandmasters University of Texas Rio Grande Valley alumni Chess Olympiad competitors {{Paraguay-chess-bio-stub