Iván Salgado López (born 29 June 1991) is a
Galician Spanish
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chess
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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
Barcelona
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round-robin tournament
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edging
Yasser Seirawan
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on tiebreak score.
He played for the Spanish national team which finished tenth in the
41st Chess Olympiad
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, held
Tromsø
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, Norway in August 2014.
References
External links
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Ivan Salgado Lopezchess games at 365Chess.com
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1991 births
Living people
Chess Grandmasters
Spanish chess players
Sportspeople from Ourense
Chess Olympiad competitors
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