Alvar Alonso Rosell
| Alvar Alonso | |
|---|---|
 Alonso in 2023 | |
| Country | Spain |
| Born | 13 September 1992 Figueres, Spain |
| Title | Grandmaster (2013) |
| FIDE rating | 2532 (November 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2572 (March 2021) |
Àlvar Alonso Rosell (born 13 September 1992 in Figueres, Girona) is a Spanish chess Grandmaster. He is ranked 10th best chess player in Spain.[1]
He was champion of Spain in 2011, surpassing the player Miguel Illescas. Alonso Rosell also won other national championships; he was the 2004 champion of Spain in the U-12, the 2006 champion in U-14, the 2008 and 2009 youth champion of Catalonia, in 2009 champion of Spain in the U-18, and the 2011 runner up in Catalonia behind Marc Narciso. In 2014 he defeated Narciso to become the 2014 Catalonia chess champion.[2]
On 23 December 2018 he won the 5th Sunway Sitges Chess Festival by scoring 8/10, half a point more than strong grandmasters such as Vassily Ivanchuk and Dmitry Andreikin.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Alonso Rosell, Alvar - FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ "Absolut". Federació Catalana d'Escacs. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ^ "Alvar Alonso Rosell wins Sunway Open in Sitges". Chess News. 24 December 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
External links
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- Alvar Alonso Rosell rating card at FIDE
- Alvar Alonso Rosell player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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