Miguel Illescas Cordoba

Miguel Illescas Córdoba, Warsaw 2013
Association	Spain
Born	December 3, 1965 Barcelona , Spain
title	International Master (1985) Grand Master (1986)
Current  Elo rating	2613 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2640 (July 1996)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Miguel Illescas Córdoba (born December 3, 1965 in Barcelona ) is a leading Spanish chess master .

Life

Illescas Córdoba, a computer scientist by profession , decided early on to pursue a professional chess career . In 1987 and 1988 he won in Las Palmas , in 1988 he gave the FIDE the Grandmaster title . In 1991/92 he won together with Leonid Judassin in Pamplona . In 1992 he came in second place after Boris Gulko in León and third in Chalkidiki after Wladimir Kramnik and Joël Lautier . This year his rating exceeded 2600 points for the first time, setting a Spanish record. In 1993 he was in Wijk aan Zee , which was played for the first and only time in the knockout system , second after a 1: 2 (+0 = 2 −1) final defeat against Anatoli Karpow . In the same year he won the zone tournament in Lisbon and qualified for the interzonal tournament in Biel , also played a match against Ljubomir Ljubojević 4: 4 (+0 = 8 −0) in Linares . In 1995 Illescas Córdoba won the Linares zone tournament ahead of Tony Miles and was the first Spanish champion ; In 1998 (tied with Francisco Vallejo Pons ), 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2010 he repeated this success. In 1996 he shared first and second place with Wesselin Topalow in Madrid , 1997/98 he won together with Ulf Andersson in Pamplona. In 2003/04 he won again in Pamplona with Luke McShane and Emil Sutovsky . Since 1986 he has regularly represented Spain at the Chess Olympiads .

Illescas Córdoba was a second of Vladimir Kramnik several times : 2000 in his successful world championship fight against Garry Kasparow in London , in 2004 in the duel against Péter Lékó and in 2006 in the reunification match against Wesselin Topalow. He has also been a FIDE Senior Trainer since 2004 .

In February 2015 he is in fourth place in the Spanish ranking, which he led in 1987 and from 1989 to 1994.

National team

Illescas Córdoba took part in twelve Chess Olympiads with the Spanish national team between 1986 and 2014 , with the third best individual result on the third board in Turin in 2006 . He has also competed in all eight European team championships since 1999 .

societies

In the Spanish team championship , Illescas Córdoba played in 1987 for the master CE Vulcà Barcelona , in 1988 for the master CA La Caja de Canarias , then until 2000 and again in 2009 for the team of UGA Barcelona , with whom he was Spanish team champion in 1991 , 1993 and 1996 , from 2002 to 2004 for CA iberCaja Zaragoza , 2005 and 2006 for CA Intel-Tiendas UPI Mancha Real , 2007, 2008 and 2011 for the team of CCA CajaCanarias Santa Cruz , with whom he was champion in 2008 , 2010 for SCC Sabadell and 2014 for the Master Mérida Patrimonio de la Humanidad . He took part in the European Club Cup in 1987/88 with CE Vulcà Barcelona , 1989/90 with CA La Caja de Canarias and 1993 with UGA Barcelona . In the German federal chess league he played for SV Empor Berlin in the 1996/97 season . Later he was registered with SG 1868-Aljechin Solingen and SG Porz , but was not used. In France he played with Montpellier Echecs until 2003 .

Web links

Commons : Miguel Illescas Córdoba  - Collection of Images

• short biography (spanish)
• Replayable chess games by Miguel Illescas Córdoba on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Miguel Illescas Córdoba's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Miguel Illescas Córdoba's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Miguel Illescas Córdoba's results in the Spanish team championship on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Miguel Illescas Córdoba's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)