Juan Carlos Obregon Rivero | |
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Country | Cuba (until 2022) Mexico (since 2022) |
Born | Las Tunas, Cuba | September 8, 1989
Title | Grandmaster (2020) [1] |
FIDE rating | 2483 (June 2024) |
Peak rating | 2560 (May 2015) |
Juan Carlos Obregon Rivero is a Cuban chess grandmaster who plays for Mexico.
In August 2021, he finished third in the Mexican Open, behind Jorge Cori and Sandro Mareco. [2]
In February 2022, he tied for second place alongside Jaime Santos Latasa, Guillermo Vázquez, Jorge Cori, Emilio Córdova, and Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera in the Iberoamericano Championship. [3]
In November 2023, he won the Mexican Chess Championship ahead of Leonel Figueredo Losada due to better tiebreaks. [4]
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