Gilberto Hernández (chess player)

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Gilberto Hernández, Toluca de Lerdo 2011
Surname Gilberto Eduardo Hernández Guerrero
Association MexicoMexico Mexico
Born February 4, 1970
Ébano , San Luis Potosí , Mexico
title International Master (1990)
Grand Master (1995)
Current  Elo rating 2564 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2572 (July and October 2000)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Gilberto Eduardo Hernández Guerrero (born February 4, 1970 in Ébano , San Luis Potosí ) is a Mexican chess player and coach.

Life

Gilberto Hernández at the Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden

Hernández learned to play chess at the age of five and began taking part in regional tournaments at the age of eight. Although he had no coach, the three-time Mexican individual champion became an international champion at the age of 19 and a grandmaster at the age of 25 in 1995 (as Mexico's third grandmaster). His older brother Eduardo (* 1968) holds the title of FIDE Master .

In 1981 he finished third at the U14 World Cup in Xalapa . In 1986 he became Pan-American Cadet Master (U16) in Puerto Rico. Hernández won many tournaments in France, Spain, the United States and Mexico in the 1990s and 2000s. Between 1986 and 2014 he took part in the Chess Olympiad ten times for Mexico with a result of +33 = 46 −19, as well as in the Pan-American Team Championship in 1991. In the seasons 2003/04 and 2004/05 he played in France for Évry Grand Roque , in the Spanish team championship he played in 1999 for CA Alzira-Hilaturas Presencia and in 2002 for CA Valencia-Grupo Bali .

As a coach he seconded Viswanathan Anand in 2001 and Francisco Vallejo Pons in 2002 at the tournament in Linares .

He is married to the Argentine Women's Grandmaster (WGM) Claudia Amura and has four children. Since 1993 he has lived alternately in Valencia , Spain and the province of San Luis , Argentina.

Since the 1990s, Gilberto Hernández has led the Mexican Elo rankings with a few interruptions .

Web links

Commons : Gilberto Hernández  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview by Marcos Iván Quintana from October 21, 2004 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ The Chess Olympiads Gilberto Hernández 'on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Gilberto Hernández 'results at Pan American team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Gilberto Hernández 'results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hernández, Gilberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hernández Guerrero, Gilberto Eduardo; Hernandez Guerrero, Gilberto (FIDE); Hernández Guerrero, Gilberto Eduardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican chess player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Ébano , San Luis Potosí (State)