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.[1]
| Diego Flores | |
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Flores at the 2008 Chess Olympiad | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Born | (1982-12-18) 18 December 1982 (age 39) Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| Title | Grandmaster (2008) |
| FIDE rating | 2528 (August 2022) |
| Peak rating | 2634 (November 2018) |
He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2017. Flores won the Argentine Chess Championships of 2005, 2009,[2] 2012[3] 2016,[4] 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.[5]
In 2010 he won the 2nd Magistral Marcel Duchamp round-robin tournament in Buenos Aires, edging out Sandro Mareco on tiebreak.[6][7] 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.[8] In 2011, he tied for 1st–2nd place with Alexandr Fier in the 2nd Latin American Cup in Montevideo, finishing second on tiebreak.[9] 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.[10]
He is also the chess columnist in Junín's daily Diario Democracia since 2004.[11]
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