Cristobal Henriquez Villagra

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

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]

He was awarded the grandmaster title in March 2017.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Chilean Chess Federation, Cristóbal Henríquez es Maestro Internacional
  2. ↑ Mark Crowther, The Week In Chess 1008
  3. ↑ Mark Crowther, The Week In Chess 1062
  4. ↑ Santa Cruz 2014 - 9° Campeonato Sulamericano u20 (boys). Brasilbase.
  5. ↑ Olimpbase, Chile at the 2014 Olympiad
  6. ↑ Mark Crowther, The Week In Chess 1038
  7. ↑ Chessdom, Sandro Mareco and Cristobal Henriquez Villagra qualify for FIDE World Cup, 4 May 2015
  8. ↑ Alejandro Ramirez, Baku 1.TB - One Armageddon, One big Surprise, ChessBase, 13 September 2015
  9. ↑ "List of titles approved by the Presidential Board by written resolution". FIDE. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.


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