Diego Flores (chess player)

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Diego Flores
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Diego Flores at 2008 Olympiad, Dresden
Country Argentina
Born (1982-12-18) 18 December 1982 (age 38)
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Title Grandmaster (2008)
FIDE   rating 2599 (October 2021)
Peak rating 2634 (November 2018)

Diego Flores (born 18 December 1982) is an Argentine chess grandmaster. He is a five-time Argentine Chess Champion. [1]

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Chess career

He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2017. Flores won the Argentine Chess Championships of 2005, 2009, [2] 2012 [3] 2016, [4] and 2017. Flores has played for the Argentine national team in the Chess Olympiad, the Pan-American Team Chess Championship and the Mercosur Chess Olympiad. [5]

In 2010 he won the 2nd Magistral Marcel Duchamp round-robin tournament in Buenos Aires, edging out Sandro Mareco on tiebreak. [6] [7] In the same year Flores was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the top five chess players of the decade in Argentina. [8] In 2011, he tied for 1st–2nd place with Alexandr Fier in the 2nd Latin American Cup in Montevideo, finishing second on tiebreak. [9] The following year Flores tied for first place in the American Continental Championship, held in Mar del Plata, with Julio Granda Zuñiga, Alexander Shabalov, Gregory Kaidanov and Eric Hansen. [10]

He is also the chess columnist in Junín's daily Diario Democracia since 2004. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Diego Flores wins the Dubai Open Chess24
  2. ↑ Ilardo, Carlos (2009-05-25). "Diego Flores, el nuevo rey del ajedrez argentino". Noticias de ajedrez (in Spanish). ChessBase. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  3. ↑ "Flores and Zuriel are 2012 Argentine chess champions". Chessdom. 2013-04-16. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  4. ↑ "The Week in Chess 1145". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  5. ↑ Diego Flores team chess record at OlimpBase.org
  6. ↑ "2nd Magistral Internacional Marcel Duchamp". Chessdom. 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  7. ↑ Ilardo, Carlos A. (2010-12-24). "El gran maestro argentino Diego Flores, todo un artista" (in Spanish). ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  8. ↑ "Premios Konex - 2010 - Deportes: Mejor Figura de la Última Década del Deporte Argentino" (in Spanish). Konex Foundation . Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  9. ↑ "Fier proud winner of the 2nd Latin American Cup". ChessVibes. 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  10. ↑ Silver, Albert (2012-10-23). "Mar del Plata 2012 : The banana ate the monkey". ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  11. ↑ "Diego Flores". Konex Foundation. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
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