Yago Santiago | |
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Full name | Yago De Moura Santiago |
Country | Brazil |
Born | April 17, 1992 |
Title | Grandmaster (2017) |
FIDE rating | 2472 (September 2023) |
Peak rating | 2513 (July 2022) |
Yago De Moura Santiago (born 17 April 1992) [1] is a Brazilian chess player. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2017. [2]
Santiago came second in the 2022 Brazilian Chess Championship [3] and second in the 2022 Cabo Verde Chess Open. [4] He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2023, where he was defeated by Maxime Lagarde in the first round. [5]
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