José Eduardo Martínez Alcántara (born 31 January 1999) is a Peruvian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by

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in 2018.

Chess career

Alcantara won the U-18 World Championship in 2017 before going on to represent Peru in the

2018 Chess Olympiad The 43rd Chess Olympiad ( ka, 43-ე საჭადრაკო ოლიმპიადა, ''43-e sach’adrak’o olimp’iada''; also known as the Batumi Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and ...

. 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 The Chess World Cup 2019 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 9 September to 4 October 2019. It was won by Azerbaijani grandmaster Teimour Radjabov. He and the runner-up, Ding ...

, where he was defeated by Dmitry Jakovenko in the first round. In the 6th

Arica Arica ( ; ) is a commune and a port city with a population of 222,619 in the Arica Province of northern Chile's Arica y Parinacota Region. It is Chile's northernmost city, being located only south of the border with Peru. The city is the cap ...

Open in 2019 he tied 2nd-8th place with Nikita Petrov, Deivy Vera Siguenas, Renato R. Quintiliano Pinto,

Cristobal Henriquez Villagra Cristóbal Guillermo Henríquez Villagra (born 7 August 1996) is a Chilean chess player. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2017, at the age of 20. Career He was awarded the title of International Master following his win in the ...

, Salvador Alonso, and Diego Saul Rod Flores Quillas.

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