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Miguel Santos Ruiz | |
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Country | Spain |
Born | Utrera, Sevilla, Spain | October 4, 1999
Title | Grandmaster (2019) |
FIDE rating | 2594 (March 2025) |
Peak rating | 2605 (September 2021) |
YouTube information | |
Channel | |
Years active | 2022–present |
Genre | Online chess |
Subscribers | 45 thousand [1] |
Total views | 7 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.
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.
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.
Another facet that he has developed within the field of chess has been as a coach. In this aspect he has been,