Leinier Domínguez: the leader of the continental ranking in chess
Mon, 2009-12-21 03:58.
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Cuban Leinier Domínguez, a rightful heir to genial Jose Raul Capablanca’s legacy, is nowadays the great paradigm of Latin American chess and the leader of the continental ranking.
Cuban Leinier Domínguez, a rightful heir to genial Jose Raul Capablanca”s legacy, is nowadays the great paradigm of Latin American chess and the leader of the continental ranking.
Born on September 23, 1983, in Guines, a village located some 52 kilometres to the south of Havana, Dominguez was encouraged by his father, from his early childhood, to try his hand at chess.
In 1992, he won the national championship in the 11-12 year-old category followed, some months later, by the trophy in the National School Games.
Successes kept on coming his way, and the Guines’ idol did not take long to achieve the International Master title when he was 14 years and 241 days old; the youngest in the history of Cuban chess.
Being just fifteen, he had already gotten half a norm as Grand Master (GM), and he definitely achieved the highest level at the 2001’s Aosta Open in Italy.
In 2002, he won his first home senior crown; the others being in 2003 and 2006, and he also outdid the 2 thousand 600 ELO plateau; the first Cuban player under twenty ever to reach that ceiling.
His definitive excitement came into being at the Tripoli’s World Championship in 2004, when he advanced up to the quarter finals, where he was outplayed in rapid matches by Azerbaijani Teimour Radjabov, in a seven-game match.
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