Benjámin Gledura (born 4 July 1999) is a Hungarian

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 ...

grandmaster.

Chess career

Born in 1999, Gledura earned his

international master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

title in 2014 and his grandmaster title in 2016. He is the No. 3 ranked active Hungarian player Gledura competed in the Tata Steel Challengers in January 2019, placing third with 8½/13 (+5–1=7). In March, he participated in the

European Individual Chess Championship The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken place on a yearly basis. Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's), ...

. He placed 19th with 7½/11 (+5–1=5) and qualified for the

Chess World Cup 2019 The Chess World Cup 2019 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 9 September to 4 October 2019. It was won by Azerbaijani grandmaster Teimour Radjabov. He and the runner-up, Ding Liren ...

.European Individual Chess Championship 2019: Gledura Benjamin
chess-results

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