Leinier Domínguez

Domínguez at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden
Surname	Leinier Domínguez Pérez
Association	Cuba (until 2018) United States (since 2018)
Born	September 23, 1983 Havana
title	International Master (1998) Grand Master (2001)
Current  Elo rating	2758 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2768 (May 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Leinier Domínguez Pérez (born September 23, 1983 in Havana ) is a Cuban / American chess grandmaster of the expanded world class, who has been eligible to play for the United States since December 2018.

Career

Domínguez, who already had numerous successes in national and international youth tournaments as a talented youth, was third in the 1999 Cuban (senior) championship. That same year he finished second in Santa Clara and posted his first norm for the grandmaster title.

In 2000 he was second in the national championship and won the zone tournament of FIDE in Valencia . In the same year he made his debut in the national team at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+5 = 3 −2) and became a grandmaster. In 2002 he won the Cuban Championship for the first time and won together with Lázaro Bruzón in Esbjerg . In 2003 he won the zone tournament in Guayaquil and qualified for the 2004 FIDE World Cup in Tripoli . This is where he took the spotlight when he made it to the quarterfinals. He was eliminated against Teymur Rəcəbov only after a tough fight by a draw in the last blitz game, which he should have won with White according to the regulations. In the previous rounds he prevailed against top players like Vladislav Tkachiev and Alexei Drejew .

Shortly before this world championship, he won the prestigious Capablanca Memorial in Havana . At the Chess Olympiad in Calvià in the same year he played on the first board for Cuba and achieved a very good result (+5 = 5 −1). At the Cuban Championship in 2005, which was held according to the knockout system , he lost in the final against Lázaro Bruzón and was runner-up. A year later he took revenge and beat Bruzón in the final with 4.5-3.5, which he won the title for the second time after 2002. In October 2006 he won a tournament in Barcelona with 8 points from nine games, ahead of Vasyl Ivanchuk . In May 2008 he won the 43rd Capablanca Memorial in Havana, and in November in Almaty the world championship in blitz chess .

In 2013 he won the fourth tournament of the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–2013 held in Thessaloniki with 8 points from eleven games (+6 = 4 −1). In 2019 Domínguez won the Dortmund Chess Days with 4½ points from seven games.

Domínguez qualified five times for the World Chess Cup ( 2007 , 2009 , 2011 , 2013 and 2015 ). He was most successful in 2011 when he reached the round of 16, but failed there to Judit Polgár .

National team

Domínguez took from 2000 to 2016 at all Chess Olympiads, where he at Chess Olympiad in 2016 reached the singles competition in second place on top board. In addition, Domínguez took part in the team world championships in 2001, 2005 and 2015 and at the same time achieved third place on the top board in the individual ranking in 2015. He also won the Pan-American Team Championships in 2000 and 2003 with the Cuban team and came in second in 2009 and 2013; In the individual ranking he won 2000 on the reserve board and 2013 on the top board.

societies

Domínguez has been playing in the Russian team championship since 2012 for the Saint Petersburg Chess Federation, with which he became the Russian team champion in 2013 and 2016. He also took part in the European Club Cups from 2012 to 2016 with the team, taking second place with the team in 2012 and 2016, third place in 2015, and third place on the second board in the 2015 individual ranking.

In the Spanish team championship , Domínguez played for champions CA Tiendas UPI Mancha Real in 2002 , in 2008 for SCC Sabadell and from 2011 to 2013 and again since 2015 for Sestao XT , with whom he became champions in 2012 , 2013 and 2016 .

Game example

Domínguez – Morozevich

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Final position after 36th Rb8

Domínguez 'winning game against Alexander Morosewitsch from the Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee 2009 was chosen as the best from volume 105 of the Schachinformator and also received the award for the best opening innovation .

Domínguez – Morozewitsch 1-0

Wijk aan Zee, January 22, 2009

Sicilian Defense ( Najdorf Variation ), B90

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. Dd2 Nbd7 9. f3 b5 10. 0–0–0 Rc8 11. g4 Nb6 12. g5 b4 13.Na4! That was the novelty. Nxe4 14. fxe4 Nxa4 15. Qxb4 Qc7 16. Rd2 Bd7 17. Qa5 Qc6 18. Bxa6 Rb8 19.Rd5 Be7 20. Ba7 Ra8 21. Bb5 Qb7 22. Qxa4 Rxa7 23. Sa5 Qc7 24.Rd1 Bxb5 25 . Kb1 g6 27.Nc4 Rb7 28. Qa4 Qb8 29. b3 Ra7 30. Qc6 Rc7 31. Rb5 Qa7 32.Qd5 Qf2 33.Qd2 Qf3 34.Nxd6 Bxg5 35.Nf5 Rc8 36.Rb8 1: 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leinier Domínguez se nacionaliza por Estados Unidos: Federación Cubana expresa desacuerdo. In: Cubadebate. December 21, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ Transfers in 2018. In: FIDE . Accessed December 18, 2018 . 
3. ^ Thessaloniki FIDE Grand Prix Tournament. Final ranking. FIDE, accessed June 3, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Leinier Domínguez 'results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open Cuba. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed December 18, 2018 . 
6. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open Board Prizes (final score after 11 rounds) - Open. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed December 18, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Leinier Domínguez 'results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Leinier Domínguez 'results at the Pan-American team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Leinier Domínguez 'results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Leinier Domínguez 'results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

Commons : Leinier Domínguez  - Collection of Images

• Leinier Domínguez at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Leinier Domínguez on chessgames.com (English)