Alejandro Ramírez (chess player)

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Alejandro Ramírez, 2008
Surname Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Álvarez
Association Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica (until 2010) United States (since 2010)
United StatesUnited States 
Born June 21, 1988
San José (Costa Rica)
title Grandmaster (2004)
Current  Elo rating 2567 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2601 (December 2013)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Álvarez (born June 21, 1988 in San José (Costa Rica) ) is a Costa Rican chess player . Since December 2010 he has been playing for the United States Chess Federation .

Life

Ramírez learned chess when he was four. In 1998 he won the Pan-American Championship U10, at the age of nine he became a FIDE master , and at the age of 13, FIDE awarded him the title of International Master . Soon afterwards he received financial support from Costa Rican companies and received a private school education from the University of San José so that he could devote himself entirely to chess.

In 2002 he played for the first time for Costa Rica at the Chess Olympiad in Bled and caused a sensation with a draw against the Russian world elite player Alexander Morosewitsch . In 2004 he became a grandmaster , after having achieved grandmaster norms at the Capablanca Memorial in Havana , at the zone tournament in Guayaquil , which he won together with the Cuban Leinier Domínguez , and at two tournaments in Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo Open and Decameron) last year . Ramírez was the second youngest grandmaster in the world after Sergei Karjakin . He won the 2004 zone tournament in San José (Costa Rica) and qualified for the FIDE World Championship in the knockout system in Tripoli in the same year. There Ramírez was eliminated in the first round against the eventual tournament winner Rustam Kasimjanov only after rapid chess play, the match ended regularly 1: 1.

In 2013 he ended up tied with Gata Kamsky in first place in the United States Chess Championship , but lost the playoff for the title. In the same year he took part in the World Chess Cup in Tromsø , where he lost 4-5 to Yevgeny Tomaschewski in the first round .

Ramírez, the first and until January 2015 (since then Bernal González Acosta also holds the GM title) the only grandmaster in Costa Rica, is considered to be the greatest hopes for young chess in Central America , alongside the Cubans Leinier Domínguez and Lázaro Bruzón . Before he moved to the US Chess Federation, he was at the top of Costa Rica's Elo ranking by a large margin, and in January 2015 he was 12th in the United States.

National team

Ramírez took part in three Chess Olympiads with the Costa Rican national team, in 2002 he played on the third board, in 2004 and 2008 on the top board.

societies

In the United States Chess League , Ramírez played for Dallas Destiny in 2005 and 2010 , for the Arizona Scorpions in 2009 and for the St. Louis Arch Bishops in 2015 .

Publications

Ramírez also works as a chess trainer and commentator. He published several instructional videos about various openings:

Web links

Commons : Alejandro Ramírez  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. List of association changes in 2010 at FIDE (English)
  2. GM application to FIDE (English)
  3. Alejandro Ramírez 'results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)