Diego Flores

Diego Flores

Diego Flores at 2008 Olympiad, Dresden
Country  Argentina
Born (1982-12-18) 18 December 1982
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Title Grandmaster (2008)
FIDE rating 2579 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2628 (January 2011)

Diego Flores (born 18 December 1982 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is an Argentine chess grandmaster.

He won the Argentine Chess Championships of 2005, 2009, 2012 and 2013, and played for the Argentine national team in the Chess Olympiads of 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.[1] Flores competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2013.

In 2010 he won the 2nd Magistral Marcel Duchamp round-robin tournament in Buenos Aires, edging out on tiebreak Sandro Mareco.[2][3] In the same year Flores was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the top five chess players of the decade in Argentina.[4] In 2011 he tied for 1st–2nd place with Alexandr Fier in the 2nd Latin American Cup in Montevideo, finishing second on tiebreak.[5] The following year Flores tied for first place in the American Continental Championship, held in Mar del Plata, with Julio Granda Zuñiga, Alexander Shabalov, Gregory Kaidanov and Eric Hansen.[6]

He's also the chess columnist in Junín's daily Diario Democracia since 2004.[7]

References

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  1. ↑ Diego Flores team chess record at OlimpBase.org
  2. ↑ "2nd Magistral Internacional Marcel Duchamp". Chessdom. 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  3. ↑ Ilardo, Carlos A. (2010-12-24). "El gran maestro argentino Diego Flores, todo un artista" (in Spanish). ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  4. ↑ "Premios Konex - 2010 - Deportes: Mejor Figura de la Última Década del Deporte Argentino" (in Spanish). Fundación Konex. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  5. ↑ "Fier proud winner of the 2nd Latin American Cup". ChessVibes. 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  6. ↑ Silver, Albert (2012-10-23). "Mar del Plata 2012 : The banana ate the monkey". ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  7. ↑ "Diego Flores". Fundación Konex. Retrieved 2016-05-29.


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