Iván Salgado López (born 29 June 1991) is a Galician Spanish

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player, who attained the rank of Grandmaster in 2008. He won the Iberoamerican Chess Championship in 2012 and the Spanish Chess Championship in 2013, and again in 2017. In 2011 Salgado López won the ''Ciutat de

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edging Yasser Seirawan on tiebreak score. He played for the Spanish national team which finished tenth in the

41st Chess Olympiad The 41st Chess Olympiad ( no, Den 41. Sjakkolympiade), organised by the FIDE, Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took pla ...

, held

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, Norway in August 2014.

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Ivan Salgado Lopez
chess games at 365Chess.com * 1991 births Living people Chess grandmasters Spanish chess players Place of birth missing (living people) {{Spain-chess-bio-stub