Ricardo Urbina (chess player)
Ricardo Urbina (born July 1, 1977 ) is a Honduran chess player . He is the first and only chess player in his country to be awarded the title of International Master by the World Chess Federation FIDE . He received this for his shared second place at the sub-zone tournament in San José , Costa Rica in September 2004. The tournament was won by the Costa Rican grandmaster Alejandro Ramírez .
He won the Honduran individual championship in Tegucigalpa in 2003 . With the Honduran national team he took part in the 2004 Chess Olympiad in Calvià , where he had a positive result with 7 points from 13 games on the third board. At the Central American Individual Championship 2007 in San Salvador , he finished fourth. He played on the second board of the Honduran national team at the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk .
His Elo rating is 2254 (as of September 2018), making him the top of the Honduran rating list. His highest rating to date was 2297 in December 2012.
Web links
- Ricardo Urbina at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
- Replayable chess games by Ricardo Urbina on 365Chess.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Subzonal 2.3. c2 ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
- ↑ a b Ricardo Urbina's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
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| SURNAME | Urbina, Ricardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Honduran chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1977 |