Diego Flores | |
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![]() Flores at the
2008 Chess Olympiad | |
Country | Argentina |
Born | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain | 18 December 1982
Title | Grandmaster (2008) |
FIDE rating | 2545 (June 2024) |
Peak rating | 2634 (November 2018) |
Diego Flores (born 18 December 1982) is an Argentine chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2008. He is a five-time Argentine Chess Champion. [1]
He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2017. Flores won the Argentine Chess Championships of 2005, 2009, [2] 2012 [3] 2016, [4] and 2017. Flores has played for the Argentine national team in the Chess Olympiad, the Pan-American Team Chess Championship and the Mercosur Chess Olympiad. [5]
In 2010 he won the 2nd Magistral Marcel Duchamp round-robin tournament in Buenos Aires, edging out Sandro Mareco on tiebreak. [6] [7] 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. [8] In 2011, he tied for 1st–2nd place with Alexandr Fier in the 2nd Latin American Cup in Montevideo, finishing second on tiebreak. [9] 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. [10]
He is also the chess columnist in Junín's daily Diario Democracia since 2004. [11]
Diego Flores | |
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![]() Flores at the
2008 Chess Olympiad | |
Country | Argentina |
Born | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain | 18 December 1982
Title | Grandmaster (2008) |
FIDE rating | 2545 (June 2024) |
Peak rating | 2634 (November 2018) |
Diego Flores (born 18 December 1982) is an Argentine chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2008. He is a five-time Argentine Chess Champion. [1]
He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2017. Flores won the Argentine Chess Championships of 2005, 2009, [2] 2012 [3] 2016, [4] and 2017. Flores has played for the Argentine national team in the Chess Olympiad, the Pan-American Team Chess Championship and the Mercosur Chess Olympiad. [5]
In 2010 he won the 2nd Magistral Marcel Duchamp round-robin tournament in Buenos Aires, edging out Sandro Mareco on tiebreak. [6] [7] 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. [8] In 2011, he tied for 1st–2nd place with Alexandr Fier in the 2nd Latin American Cup in Montevideo, finishing second on tiebreak. [9] 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. [10]
He is also the chess columnist in Junín's daily Diario Democracia since 2004. [11]