Cristobal Henriquez Villagra

Cristóbal Henríquez Villagra (born 7 August 1996) is a Chilean chess player.

Career

He was awarded the title of International Master following his win in the 2013 Pan-American Youth chess championship in Brazil.[1]

He was runner-up in the 2014 Chilean championship,[2] and won it in 2015.[3] Henríquez Villagra won the 2014 Pan American junior championship.[4] He played third board for Chile at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway, scoring 6.5/9.[5] In the 2014 World Under-18 championship he finished in a tie for third.[6]

In 2015 he finished in a tie for second at the FIDE zonal in Asunción, then won the playoff against three grandmasters to qualify for the FIDE World Cup in September of that year.[7] At this event, he caused a major upset in the first round by defeating leading grandmaster Boris Gelfand in the rapid play-off.[8]

References

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, February 06, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.