Miguel Santos Ruiz
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| Miguel Santos Ruiz | |
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| Country | Spain |
| Born | October 4, 1999 Utrera, Sevilla, Spain |
| Title | Grandmaster (2019) |
| FIDE rating | 2594 (November 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2605 (September 2021) |
YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2022–present |
| Genre | Online chess |
| Subscribers | 45000[1] |
| Total views | 7 millions[1] |
Miguel Santos Ruiz (Utrera, Seville, 4 October 1999) is a Spanish chess player, player of the Spanish National Team, coach of the Swiss Absolute National Team and current coach of Fabiano Caruana, the world number 2 in chess. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2019.
Santos is the great-great-grandson of the philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, and great-grandson of Fernando de Unamuno. On the FIDE Elo list of May 2021 he had an ELO of 2594 points, making him the ninth highest-ranked active player in Spain and 263rd in the world. His peak rating has been 2605 ELO fide in classical chess.
Chess Player
[edit]- In 2013 he was proclaimed Spanish under-16 champion in Salobreña. Also in 2013 he tied for first place, and was runner-up on a tie-break, at the under-14 European Championships (the champion was Jorden Van Foreest). In 2017 he tied for third place at the U18 European Championships (the champion was Thybo Jesper Sondergaard).
- In March 2018 he was 19th in the European Individual Championship in Batumi (Georgia), the first Spanish qualifier, and that gave him a place in the 2019 World Chess Cup. Later in this competition he was eliminated by top GM Wei Yi in the first round.
- Also in 2018 he won the Grandmaster title. In October 2019 he was fourth in the World Under-20 Chess Championship held in New Delhi (the champion was Evgeny Shtembuliak).
- In November 2019 he was ninth in the Spanish Absolute Championship in Marbella (the champion was Alexei Shirov).
- Also in November 2019 he was third in the ‘II Festival VIII Centenario de la Universidad de Salamanca’, behind the Venezuelan grandmaster Eduardo Iturrizaga and Ruslan Ponomariov
Chess Commentator
[edit]He has also developed a chess commentary, first on the chess24 platform, then on chess.com and currently also on his own youtube channel. He is known for sharing in his content a solid knowledge of opening theory.
Chess Coach
[edit]Another facet that he has developed within the field of chess has been as a coach. In this aspect he has been,
- Coach of the Swiss Absolute National Team
- Current coach of GM Fabiano Caruana, the world number 2 in classical chess.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Miguel Santos Ruiz rating card at FIDE
- Miguel Santos Ruiz chess games at 365Chess.com
- Miguel Santos Ruiz player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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