Pablo Salinas Herrera | |
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Country | Chile |
Born | 3 June 1994 |
Title | Grandmaster (2019) |
FIDE rating | 2463 (February 2025) |
Peak rating | 2534 (May 2022) |
Pablo Salinas Herrera (born 3 June 1994) is a Chilean chess player. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2019. [1]
Salinas has won the Chilean Chess Championship five times; in 2011, 2012, 2019, 2020 and 2022. [2]
He has represented Chile in the Chess Olympiad three times; in 2012 (scoring 3/8 on board 4), [3] 2014 (5/7 on board 5) [4] and 2018 (5.5/10 on board three). [5]
Salinas earned the Chilean federation spot to qualify for the Chess World Cup 2021, where he defeated Mads Andersen 1½-½ in the first round, and was defeated by the same score by Peter Svidler in the second round. [6]
He also qualified for the Chess World Cup 2023, where he defeated Denis Kadrić in the first round, but was defeated by Amin Tabatabaei in the second round. [7]