Francisco Vallejo Pons

Francisco Vallejo Pons, Karlsruhe 2016
Association	Spain
Born	August 21, 1982 Es Castell , Spain
title	International Master (1996) Grand Master (1999)
Current  Elo rating	2710 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2724 (July 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Francisco Vallejo Pons (born August 21, 1982 in Es Castell on Menorca ) is a Spanish chess player .

Life

Francisco Vallejo learned the rules of chess when he was five. He was quickly regarded as one of the most promising talents in Spain and took part in numerous international youth championships: He came second at the U10 World Youth Championship in 1991 in Mamaia , second at the U10 European Championship in Warsaw in 1992, and shared third (with Étienne Bacrot ) in the U10 -WM 1992 in Duisburg , second at the U12 World Cup in 1993 in Bratislava and shared third (with Ruslan Ponomarjow ) at the U12 World Cup in Szeged 1994.

In 1998 he won the Spanish Championship in Linares together with Miguel Illescas Córdoba and was named International Master by FIDE in the same year , and Grand Master in 1999 at the age of 16 years and 9 months . In 2000 he was second in the European Youth Championships U20 in Avilés and Youth World Champion U18 in Oropesa del Mar . That year he won the Mallorca Open and played for the first time in the Spanish national team at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul . In 2001 he won the Capablanca Memorial in Havana and in the same year played in Mondariz against the Bosnian Ivan Sokolov 4: 4 (+1 = 6 −1).

In 2002 he played for the first time at the world elite tournament in Linares , which was won by Garry Kasparov . He also won this year in Dos Hermanas and was second behind Alexei Schirow, who was elected from Spain , at the Spanish Championship held in Ayamonte . In 2004 he defeated Viktor Korchnoi in a competition in Vera (Spain) with 3.5: 2.5 (+2 = 3 −1). At the 2005 World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk , he was twelfth. In 2006, together with Ruslan Ponomarjow, he won a young championship tournament in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and the Spanish national championship in León . In 2009 he won the Spanish championship again in Cala Major . In 2014 he became Spanish champion for the third time in Linares, and in 2015 and 2016 he defended his title in the same place.

Elo development

National team

With the Spanish national team, Vallejo took part in the Chess Olympiads in 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 and 2016 and achieved the second-best individual result on the second board in Dresden in 2008 . He also represented Spain at the European Team Championships in 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011 , 2013 and 2015, he achieved the best result in 2003 and the second best result on the second board in 2007.

societies

In the Spanish team championship , Vallejo played from 1995 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2011 for the team of CA Marcote Mondariz , with whom he became champions in 1999 and 2010 , in 2002, 2006 and 2007 for CA Tiendas UPI Mancha Real , with whom he became champions in 2002 was from 2003 to 2005 for CA Valencia , 2013 for SCC Sabadell and since 2015 for the team of Sestao Fundacion EDP , with which he won the title in 2016 .

In the German 1st Bundesliga, Vallejo played in the 2001/02 season for the master Lübeck chess club from 1873 , in the 2002/03 season for the SK Turm Emsdetten , since 2003 he has played for the OSG Baden-Baden , with which he in 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 German team champion. With Baden-Baden he also took part in the European Club Cup in 2008, 2009 and 2010 , and in 2008 came second with the team and third in the individual ranking on the third board in 2009. In France, Vallejo played for Montpellier Echecs in the 2001/02 season and for NAO Paris from 2002 to 2007 , with whom he became French team champion in 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and 2006 , won the European Club Cup in 2003 and 2004 and at the European Club Cup in 2005 reached third place. Vallejo also took part in the European Club Cup in 2016 with Ashdod , in 2018 and 2019 with the team from Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova , which won the competition in 2019. In the Chinese team championship he played for Hangzhou in 2017 and 2019, and for Chengdu in 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Francisco Vallejo Pons  - Collection of Images

• Francisco Vallejo Pons at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Francisco Vallejo Pons on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
2. ↑ Francisco Vallejo Pons' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Francisco Vallejo Pons' results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Francisco Vallejo Pons' results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Francisco Vallejo Pons' results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)