Enrique Almada (chess player)

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Enrique Almada (born December 29, 1963 ) is a Swiss chess player of Uruguayan origin.

Life

He was trained in Uruguay by Manuel Dienavorian .

Enrique Almada graduated from the Universidad de la República (UDELAR), the largest university in Uruguay, with a degree in electrical engineering . He graduated from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences in 2007 with Fritz Rothenbühler as a mechanical engineer .

successes

One of his greatest successes was winning the Uruguayan individual championship in 1988 and 1989. He started for the Club Solís de Las Piedras .

For the national team of Uruguay he played on the third board at the 5th U26 World Cup in 1985 in Mendoza, Argentina . In 1987 he won the Argentino Hotel Open in Uruguay . He took part in three chess Olympiads for Uruguay : 1986 in Dubai on the first reserve board with a balanced result of four points from eight games, in 1988 in Thessaloniki on the top board and in 1990 in Novi Sad on the third board. In Novi Sad he received an individual silver medal for his result of seven out of nine. In 1999 he won the 1st Seeburg Open in Lucerne in front of the grandmasters Ian Rogers and Stefan Djurić .

In 1992 he changed the chess federation and has since played for the Swiss Chess Federation (SSB). He played club chess in the Swiss Federal Chess League until the 2000 season , namely for Lucerne Musegg , and in the National League A since 1997 for the Lucerne chess club , with which he became Swiss team champion in 2018 .

Since 1991 he has held the title of FIDE Master . He achieved a norm for obtaining the title of International Master in the 2001 season of the National League A. His highest rating was 2382 from January to December 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Campeones Uruguayos de Ajedrez, de Gabarain a Roselli (Spanish) on ajedrezuruguay.blogspot.de of April 9, 2016, accessed on August 10, 2017
  2. ↑ The Chess Olympiads Enrique Almadas on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ^ The 1st Seeburg open . The Week in Chess # 258 of October 18, 1999 (English)
  4. ↑ IM standard from November 2001 ( PDF , English; 602 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Almada, Enrique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1963