Alvar Alonso Rosell

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Alvar Alonso
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Alonso in 2023
Country Spain
Born (1992-09-13) 13 September 1992 (age 31)
Figueres, Spain
Title Grandmaster (2013)
FIDE   rating 2566 (December 2023)
Peak rating 2572 (March 2021)

Alvar Alonso Rosell (born 13 September 1992 in Figueres, Girona) is a Spanish chess Grandmaster. He is ranked 10th best chess player in Spain. [1]

He was champion of Spain in 2011, surpassing the player Miguel Illescas. Alonso Rosell also won other national championships; he was the 2004 champion of Spain in the U-12, the 2006 champion in U-14, the 2008 and 2009 youth champion of Catalonia, in 2009 champion of Spain in the U-18, and the 2011 runner up in Catalonia behind Marc Narciso. In 2014 he defeated Narciso to become the 2014 Catalonia chess champion. [2]

On 23 December 2018 he won the 5th Sunway Sitges Chess Festival by scoring 8/10, half a point more than strong grandmasters such as Vassily Ivanchuk and Dmitry Andreikin. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Alonso Rosell, Alvar - FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Absolut". Federació Catalana d'Escacs. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Alvar Alonso Rosell wins Sunway Open in Sitges". Chess News. 24 December 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2020.


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