Axel Bachmann
Axel Bachmann Schiavo (born 4 November 1989) is a Paraguayan chess player who holds the Grandmaster title. Biography Bachmann went to study to the University of Texas at Brownsville on a chess scholarship due to a recommendation by Peruvian grandmaster Daniel Fernandez. There, Bachmann was a teammate and training partner of Chilean grandmaster Mauricio Flores Ríos. Bachmann won the 5th Iberoamerican Chess Championship held in Linares, Jaén, Spain in 2014. Career Bachmann won, or tied for first, the following tournaments: * Pan American Under-16 Championship in Camboriú, Brazil (2005) * Magistral Mercosur (2007) * Rochefort International Chess Festival (2014) * 30th Cappelle-la-Grande Open (2014) * Iași International Chess Festival (2014) * Golden Sands Open (2014) * World Open 2015 * Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona 2015 Bachmann played for Paraguay in the Chess Olympiads:
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Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of seven million, nearly three million of whom live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro. Although one of only two landlocked countries in South America (Bolivia is the other), Paraguay has ports on the Paraguay and Paraná rivers that give exit to the Atlantic Ocean, through the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway. Spanish conquistadores arrived in 1524, and in 1537, they established the city of Asunción, the first capital of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata. During the 17th century, Paraguay was the center of Jesuit missions, where the native Guaraní people were converted to Christianity and introduced to European culture. ...
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