Sandro Mareco

Sandro Mareco
Full name Sandro Fabio Mareco
Country Argentina
Born (1987-05-13) May 13, 1987
Haedo, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Title Grandmaster (2010)
FIDE rating 2653 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2664 (March 2017)

Sandro Fabio Mareco (born 13 May 1987 in Haedo, Buenos Aires Province)[1] is an Argentine chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011, 2013 and 2015. Mareco has played for Argentina's national team in the Chess Olympiad since 2012.

He won the South American Under-20 Championship in 2007.[2] Mareco was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2010. In 2012 he tied for first place in the Argentine Chess Championship, finishing second on countback.[3]

In 2015, Mareco won the 10th American Continental Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay[4][5] and the Argentine championship.[6] In 2017 he won the Marcel Duchamp Cup in Montevideo with a perfect score of 9/9 points.[7] In 2018 he won the Vlissingen chess tournament in Flushing, the Netherlands.[8]

References

  1. ↑ GM title application. FIDE.
  2. ↑ 2° Campeonato Sulamericano u20 (boys). BrasilBase.
  3. ↑ "Exciting finish in Argentina Chess Championship". Chessdom. 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  4. ↑ "GM Sandro Mareco is 2015 American Continental champion". Chessdom. 2015-05-25. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  5. ↑ Martínez, David (2015-05-28). "Sandro Mareco defeats a continent". chess24.com. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  6. ↑ "GM Sandro Mareco is 2015 Argentinian champion". Chessdom. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
  7. ↑ "The Week in Chess 1163". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  8. ↑ "HZ Chess Tournament". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.