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Diego Flores

b. 1982

Argentine chess player

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About Diego Flores

Born 1982. Diego Flores is an Argentine chess player.

Diego Flores (born 18 December 1982) is an Argentine chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2008. He is a five-time Argentine Chess Champion.

Chess career He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2017. Flores won the Argentine Chess Championships of 2005, 2009, 2012 2016, and 2017. Flores has played for the Argentine national team in the Chess Olympiad, the Pan-American Team Chess Championship and the Mercosur Chess Olympiad.

In 2010 he won the 2nd Magistral Marcel Duchamp round-robin tournament in Buenos Aires, edging out Sandro Mareco on tiebreak. In the same year Flores was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the top five chess players of the decade in Argentina. In 2011, he tied for 1st–2nd place with Alexandr Fier in the 2nd Latin American Cup in Montevideo, finishing second on tiebreak. The following year Flores tied for first place in the American Continental Championship, held in Mar del Plata, with Julio Granda Zuñiga, Alexander Shabalov, Gregory Kaidanov and Eric Hansen.

He is also the chess columnist in Junín's daily Diario Democracia since 2004.

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Who is Diego Flores?

Argentine chess player

When was Diego Flores born?

Diego Flores was born on 18 December 1982 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

What is Diego Flores's occupation?

Diego Flores is a chess player.

What nationality is Diego Flores?

Diego Flores is Argentine.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Diego Flores

· Wikidata: Q613780

· DBpedia: Diego Flores (chess player)

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