André Diamant (chess player)

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Andre Diamant 2008.jpg
André Diamant, Madrid 2008
Association BrazilBrazil Brazil
Born February 9, 1990
Fortaleza , Brazil
title International Master (2007)
Grand Master (2009)
Current  Elo rating 2540 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2547 (January 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

André Diamant (born February 9, 1990 in Fortaleza ) is a Brazilian chess player .

Life

André Diamant learned to play chess from his father at the age of four. At the age of six he was trained by Sidney Corrêa Filho. At the age of eight he joined the A Hebraica São Paulo chess club . When André was ten years old, the club and his father made it possible for him to study for four months at the chess school of world chess champion Alexander Chalifman in Saint Petersburg and at a chess school in Spain. He is now being trained by the Brazilian grandmaster Gilberto Milos . Like Akiba Rubinstein , André Diamant usually wears a kippah when playing chess . He studies Sistemas de informação and has a son (* 2008).

successes

In May 2002 he was Brazilian U12 champion in Blumenau , in April 2003 and May 2004, each in Poços de Caldas , Brazilian U14 champion. He won the Brazilian U16 championship in May 2005 in Curitiba and in April 2006 in Goiânia . He was Brazilian U18 champion in April 2008 in Foz do Iguaçu . At the South American U20 championship in April 2009 in Cochabamba , he was second behind Alexandr Fier .

He took part in the 2008 Chess Olympiads in Dresden and 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk as a reserve player for the Brazilian national team, as well as in the 2010 World Team Championship in Bursa . In December 2008 in Porto Alegre he surprisingly won the Brazilian individual championship in a category 9 tournament in front of the five grandmasters Giovanni Vescovi , Alexandr Fier, Rafael Leitão , Gilberto Milos and Darcy Lima .

In 2007 André Diamant received the title of International Master . He achieved the standards for this at the International Championship in Guarapari in June 2006 and at the American Continental Championship in Cali in July 2007. He has been a grandmaster since June 2009. He achieved the grandmaster standards at the international tournament in Parla in September 2008, where he took third place at the Brazilian individual championship in December 2008 and the Magistral International in Mar de Ajó in March 2009.

In 2012 he played for the St. Louis Arch Bishops in the United States Chess League .

In May 2015, Diamant was in eighth place in the Brazilian Elo ranking.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ O diamante bruto do xadrez brasileiro ( Memento of 19 May 2015, Internet Archive ). Article by Valéria Zukeran in the daily newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Portrait on ligadexadrez.com.br ( Memento from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ 16th Brazilian U12 Championship 2002 (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ 20th Brazilian U14 Championship 2003 (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ 21st Brazilian U14 Championship 2004 (Portuguese)
  6. ↑ 27th Brazilian U16 Championship 2005 (Portuguese)
  7. ↑ 28th Brazilian U16 Championship 2006 (Portuguese)
  8. ↑ 22nd Brazilian U18 Championship 2008 (Portuguese)
  9. ↑ André Diamond's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ André Diamants results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. ↑ 75th Brazilian Individual Championship 2008 ( Memento from June 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  12. ↑ IM application (English)
  13. ↑ GM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME Diamond, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diamant, Andre (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Fortaleza