Lexy Ortega is an Italian

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Grandmaster.

Career

Born in 1960 at

Camagüey Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 333,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by Sp ...

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, in 1991 he emigrated to Italy, transferring his nationality and playing for this country ever since. As a youth he was a

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champion, but a broken foot incident (1974) abruptly ended his martial arts career. Thereafter he turned completely to chess, and very soon he won the 1978 Cuban junior chess championship (Under-18). In 1986 he was the second of Walter Arencibia when he won the

World Junior Chess Championship The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The idea was the brainchild of William Rits ...

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. He has been for some years the trainer of the Mexican national chess team. In the year 2000 he was awarded the Grandmaster title from

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. Ortega was the captain of the Italian Women national team at the

38th Chess Olympiad The 38th Chess Olympiad (), organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place from 12 to 25 November 2008 in Dresden, Germany. There were 146 teams ...

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, where it ended in 12th place out of 114 teams, its best result ever. In 2009 he won the

Italian Chess Championship The Italian Chess Federation (Italian: Federazione Scacchistica Italiana (FSI)) was established in 1920. The first Italian Chess Championship took place at Viareggio 1921. The 1998 Championship was held 21–29 November in Saint-Vincent, Italy, Sai ...

, after a play-off with Michele Godena. He lives in Rome, is married and has two children, Celeste and Riccardo Other results: * 1986: equal 3rd-4th at

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, in a field that included

Mikhail Tal Mikhail Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as Comparison of top chess players throughout history, one ...

, Oleg Romanishin,

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and

Lev Psakhis Lev Borisovich Psakhis (; ; born 29 November 1958) is an Israeli chess grandmaster, trainer and author. He is also a two-time former champion of the Soviet Union. Biography He gained the International Master and International Grandmaster title ...

* 1988: 3rd in the Cuban championship (repeated in 1989) * 1993: =1st with Sinisa Drazič at Rome (INPS Festival) * 1994: 1st in Naples; 2nd at

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after

Sergei Tiviakov Sergei Tiviakov (; born 14 February 1973) is a Russian–Dutch chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Dutch Champion and was European Champion in 2008. Chess career Tiviakov won the World Under-18 Championship in 1990 in Singapore. He was awar ...

* 1996: 1st at

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; wins the 28th Italian Team chess championship with "Circolo Scacchistico Averno" of Naples * 1997: 1st at

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. * 1999: 1st at

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References

External links

Lexy Ortega
on Chessgames.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Ortega, Lexy 1960 births Living people Cuban chess players Italian chess players Chess Grandmasters Sportspeople from Camagüey Cuban emigrants to Italy