Leinier Domínguez

Leinier Domínguez
at the Dresden Olympiad, 2008
Full name	Leinier Domínguez Pérez
Country	Cuba
Born	(1983-09-23) September 23, 1983 Havana, Cuba
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2746 (March 2016) (No. 10 in the May 2014 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating	2768 (May 2014)
Peak ranking	No. 10 (May 2014)

Leinier Domínguez Pérez (born September 23, 1983 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban chess Grandmaster.

Career

He won the Cuban Chess Championship in 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2012.

During the 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship he reached the quarter finals, losing to Teimour Radjabov in the tie-break.^[1]

His best tournament result was Barcelona 2006, where he scored 8/9 and finished first, ahead of Vassily Ivanchuk, with a performance rating of 2932.^[2]

In 2008, he won the CPA chess tournament and the 43rd Capablanca in Memoriam tournament.^[3] In the same year he tied for first with Evgeny Alekseev (but lost to him in tie-break) at Biel (6.5/10), ahead of Magnus Carlsen.^[4]

On November 8, 2008 he won the World Blitz Championship 2008, held at Almaty in Kazakhstan, with 11.5 points out of 15, ahead of Vassily Ivanchuk, Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk and many other top grandmasters.^[5]

In June 2013 he won the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki as a clear first in a field of twelve elite players, among them Fabiano Caruana, Veselin Topalov and Alexander Grischuk.^[6]

Notable games

References

External links

Leinier Dominguez-Perez player profile and games at Chessgames.com

Awards
Preceded by Vassily Ivanchuk	World Blitz Chess Champion 2008	Succeeded by Magnus Carlsen

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