Jerguš Pecháč (born 31 October 2001) is a Slovak

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grandmaster.

Chess career

He came third in the U-12 European Youth Chess Championship in Prague in 2012. He was awarded the title of

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in 2017, and Grandmaster in 2019, becoming Slovakia's youngest grandmaster. He was nominated by the FIDE president as a replacement in the

Chess World Cup 2021 The Chess World Cup 2021 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Sochi, Russia, beginning 12 July and ending 6 August 2021. It was the 9th edition of the Chess World Cup. The winner of this tournament was the Polish ...

, where he faced

Alexandr Fier Alexandr Hilário Takeda Sakai dos Santos Fier (born 11 March 1988) is a Brazilian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2023. Career Fier won five gold medals at the Pan American Youth Chess F ...

in the first round. Earlier, in an online World Cup qualifier, he gained attention by offering

Boris Gelfand Boris Abramovich Gelfand (; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, mak ...

a draw after Gelfand had left his queen en prise following a mouseslip.

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Jerguš Pecháč
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