Yuniesky Quesada

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Yuniesky Quesada at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Surname Yuniesky Quesada Pérez
Association CubaCuba Cuba (until 2019) United States (since 2019)
United StatesUnited States 
Born July 31, 1984
Quemado de Güines
title International Master (2003)
Grand Master (2005)
Current  Elo rating 2598 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2655 (July 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Yuniesky Quesada Pérez (born July 31, 1984 in Quemado de Güines , Villa Clara Province ) is a Cuban chess player who has been eligible to play for the United States Chess Federation since July 2019 .

Life

With the Cuban national team, he participated in the Chess Olympiads in 2004 , 2006 , 2008 2010 , 2012 and 2014 , the World Team Championships in 2005 and 2015 (where he reached at the World Team Championship in 2015, the highest individual score on the third board) and the Pan-American Team Championships in 2009 and 2013, in part , in which Cuba took second place. In 2008 (in Santa Clara ) and 2011 he won the Cuban Individual Championship. In the Spanish team championship , Quesada played for CE Barberà in 2010 and for Equigoma Casa Social Catolica in 2016 . Quesada took part in the World Chess Cup twice, but failed both times in the first round ( 2011 against his compatriot Lázaro Bruzón , 2015 against the Russian Ernesto Inarkiew ).

He was international champion in 2003, he fulfilled the required standards in September 2001 at the Memorial Clemente Vasquez in Güines , in May 2003 at the 38th Capablanca Memorial in Havana and also in May 2003 at the 11th Guillermo García González International Tournament in Santa Clara . He has held the title of Chess Grandmaster since 2005, he fulfilled the norms in December 2003 at the 16th Torre Repetto Memorial in Mérida , in May 2004 at the 12th Guillermo García González International Tournament in Santa Clara and in May 2005 at the 40th Capablanca Memorial in Havana. In February 2015, he was third in the Cuban rankings behind Leinier Domínguez and Lázaro Bruzón.

Web links

Commons : Yuniesky Quesada  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Yuniesky Quesada's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. Yuniesky Quesadas results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. Yuniesky Quesadas results at Pan-American team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. IM application to FIDE (English)
  5. GM application to FIDE (English)