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Cristobal Henriquez Villagra

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Cristóbal Henríquez
Cristóbal Henríquez at FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023
Full nameCristóbal Guillermo Henríquez Villagra
CountryChile
Born (1996-08-07) 7 August 1996 (age 28)
La Florida, Chile
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2594 (November 2024)
Peak rating2630 (September 2023)

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

Career

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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

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  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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