Miguel Santos Ruiz

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Miguel Santos Ruiz
Country Spain
Born (1999-10-04) October 4, 1999 (age 25)
Utrera, Sevilla, Spain
Title Grandmaster (2019)
FIDE   rating 2594 (March 2025)
Peak rating 2605 (September 2021)
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2022–present
Genre Online chess
Subscribers45 thousand [1]
Total views7 million [1]

Miguel Santos Ruiz (Utrera, Seville, 4 October 1999) is a Spanish chess player, player of the Spanish National Team, coach of the Swiss Absolute National Team and current coach of Fabiano Caruana, the world number 2 in chess. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2019.

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Santos is the great-great-grandson of the philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, and great-grandson of Fernando de Unamuno. On the FIDE Elo list of May 2021 he had an ELO of 2594 points, making him the ninth highest-ranked active player in Spain and 263rd in the world. His peak rating has been 2605 ELO fide in classical chess.

Chess Player

Chess Commentator

He has also developed a chess commentary, first on the chess24 platform, then on chess.com and currently also on his own youtube channel. He is known for sharing in his content a solid knowledge of opening theory.

Chess Coach

Another facet that he has developed within the field of chess has been as a coach. In this aspect he has been,

References

  1. 1 2 "About @ajedrezconmiguelito". YouTube.