Cristobal Henriquez Villagra

Cristóbal Henríquez Villagra (born 7 August 1996) is a Chilean chess player. He earned the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2017, at the age of 20.

Cristóbal Henríquez
Full nameCristóbal Guillermo Henríquez Villagra
CountryChile
Born (1996-08-07) 7 August 1996
La Florida, Chile
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2600 (February 2021)
Peak rating2603 (January 2020)
RankingNo. 235 (September 2020)

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]

In the 6th Arica Open in 2019 he tied 2nd-8th place with Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, Deivy Vera Siguenas, Renato R. Quintiliano Pinto, Nikita Petrov, Salvador Alonso, and Diego Saul Rod Flores Quillas.[9]

He was awarded the Grandmaster title in March 2017.[10]

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. "The Week in Chess 1311". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  10. "List of titles approved by the Presidential Board by written resolution". FIDE. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.


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