Yuniesky Quesada Pérez (born July 31, 1984) is a Cuban-American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by

FIDE The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...

in 2005. Quesada is the fourth Cuban to surpass the 2600

Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved ch ...

mark, which he did on the FIDE list of July 2010. He won the

Cuban Chess Championship In the second part of the 19th century, Celso Golmayo Zúpide had been generally accepted as Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre. In 1912–1937 Cuban Championship as Copa Dewar occurred. Maria Teresa Mora was the first ...

in 2008 and 2011. In April 2015, Quesada won the Philadelphia Open edging out Ioan-Cristian Chirila on tiebreak score.

Family

His younger brother, Yasser Quesada Pérez, is also a Grandmaster.

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Yuniesky Quesada Perez
chess games at 365Chess.com * 1984 births Living people Cuban chess players American chess players Chess Grandmasters Cuban emigrants to the United States Sportspeople from Santa Clara, Cuba {{Cuba-chess-bio-stub