Alex Astaneh Lopez

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Alex Astaneh Lopez (born June 13, 1987 in Madrid ) is an Irish chess player . He lives in Cork .

Alex Astaneh Lopez was born in Spain and came to Ireland at the age of seven. In 2003 he was third in the Spanish youth chess championship.

In 2010 he won the Irish Chess Championship for the first time . In December of the same year, he passed his third IM standard at the London Chess Classic and in 2011 received the FIDE title of International Master . In 2014, he temporarily said goodbye to the world of chess, according to his own account, to travel the world and meditate. In January 2017 he started playing again in tournaments like the Bunratty Chess Festival . Again he took first place in the Irish chess championship in 2017 (ex aequo with Philip Short ), as well as in 2018.

Alex Astaneh Lopez played for the Irish team in the 2010 , 2014 and 2018 Chess Olympiads . In the British Four Nations Chess League he played for Cheddleton in the 2018/19 season and for The Smashing Pawns Bieles in the Luxembourg national division in the 2019/20 season .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cork Chess Club. In: corkchess.com . Retrieved July 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Replayable chess games by Alex Astaneh Lopez on chessgames.com (English)
  3. ^ John McMorrow: The Irish Championships 2017: Preview. The Irish Chess Union. May 15, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ 2010 Olympiad Teams. The Irish Chess Union. July 14, 2010, accessed July 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ Olympiad teams. The Irish Chess Union. March 15, 2014, accessed July 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ Jonathan O'Connor, John McMorrow: 2018 Olympiad Selections Report. The Irish Chess Union. April 24, 2018, accessed July 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Astaneh Lopez, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid