Luis Fernando Ibarra Chami

Luis Fernando Ibarra Chami
Luis Fernando Ibarra Chami during the American Continental Chess Championship in Toluca (Mexico), April 2011
Personal information
Born (1989-05-15) May 15, 1989
Chess career
CountryMexico
TitleGrandmaster (2020)
FIDE rating2422 (December 2025)
Peak rating2514 (May 2011)

Luis Fernando Ibarra Chami (born 1989) is a Mexican chess player. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2020.[1]

Career

In 2009, Ibarra Chami finished second on a tiebreak in the 2009 Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial behind Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera.[2]

Ibarra Chami was awarded the Yucatán State Sport Prize in 2020.[3]

He won a gold medal on board two in the rapid section of the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games.[4] and bronze in the blitz.[5]

He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2023, where Abhimanyu Puranik defeated him in the first round.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Ibarra Chami, Luis Fernando". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  2. ^ "The Week in Chess 1311". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  3. ^ "Luis Ibarra Chami, Gran Maestro de ajedrez, Premio Estatal del Deporte yucateco". www.yucatan.com.mx (in Spanish). 2020-10-19. Archived from the original on 2023-08-24. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  4. ^ "Medallists – Men's Second Rapid Board" (PDF). 2023-07-06. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-07-07.
  5. ^ "Medallists – Men's Second Blitz Board" (PDF). 2023-07-06. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-07-08.
  6. ^ "FIDE World Cup 2023". chess24.com. Archived from the original on 2023-08-16. Retrieved 2023-08-24.