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    Francisco Vallejo Pons (born 21 August 1982) is a Spanish chess grandmaster. He is a five-time Spanish Chess Champion. He achieved the Grandmaster title...
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     Evgeny Bareev (RUS), 2675  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE), 2674  Francisco Vallejo Pons (ESP), 2674  Ilya Smirin (ISR), 2673  Pentala Harikrishna (IND)...
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  • Volokitin 2725 2013-03 1986 74  China Ni Hua 2724 2009-04 1983  Spain Francisco Vallejo Pons 2724 2011-07 1982 Formerly highest-ranked Spanish player (2012–2018)...
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  • filmmaker Francisco Vallejo Pons (born 1982), Spanish chess Grandmaster Gaby Vallejo Canedo (born 1941), Bolivian writer Georgette Vallejo (1908–1984)...
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  • with 4.g3 has been tried by Anand, Baadur Jobava, Gyula Sax, and Francisco Vallejo Pons among others. A more speculative approach against 3...Qa5 is 4.b4...
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    Aronian, Ruslan Ponomariov, and Francisco Vallejo Pons. Anand won the tournament by scoring 3 wins (2 against Vallejo Pons and 1 against Ponomariov) and...
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    Carlsen had a slow start, including a loss against bottom-ranked Francisco Vallejo Pons, he finished +3−1=6, equal with Ivanchuk (whose +4−3=3 finish was...
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    won by Judit Polgár, Yvonne Krawiec, Tal Shaked, Corina Peptan, Francisco Vallejo Pons and Claudia Bilciu. Polgar made it a clean sweep by winning an Under-14...
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  • 2022, Aditya became India's 77th grandmaster by drawing against Francisco Vallejo Pons during the Ellobregat Open tournament in Catalonia, which caused...
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  • successfully converted this configuration within the 50-move limit against Francisco Vallejo Pons in 2019. Even with best play from the starting RB v BN position...
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    invitation tournament at Reggio Emilia in 2010–11 on tie-break above Francisco Vallejo Pons. Gashimov was born on 24 July 1986 in Baku. He was the son of a...
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    In April 2011, he tied for 1st–3rd places with Nigel Short and Francisco Vallejo Pons in the Thailand Open in Bangkok and won the event on tiebreak. In...
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    Moiseenko, Evgeny Romanov, Alexander Beliavsky, Constantin Lupulescu, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Sergei Movsesian, Hrant Melkumyan, Alexey Dreev, and Evgeny Alekseev...
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    Ivanchuk (UKR), 2728 (ACP)  Nikita Vitiugov (RUS), 2724 (E16)  Francisco Vallejo Pons (ESP), 2717 (E16)  Étienne Bacrot (FRA), 2715 (E17)  Bu Xiangzhi (CHN)...
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    Erigaisi (IND), 2710 (PN) 24.    Wang Hao (CHN), 2709 (R) 25.    Francisco Vallejo Pons (ESP), 2706 (FN) 26.    Bassem Amin (EGY), 2694 (AF22) 27.    Kirill...
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  • Philippines National Championships. In 2014, he tied for 1st–2nd with Francisco Vallejo Pons in the Thailand Open Chess Championship. He has trained with Wesley...
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  • brother of Josep Maria Pons Irazazábal Francisco Pons y Boigues (1861–1899), Spanish Arabist and historian Francisco Vallejo Pons (born 1982), Spanish chess...
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    14th Ciudad Dos Hermanas Rapid, 17–21 April 2008, defeating GM Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain 2½–1½ in the final match by winning the first game and...
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    he defeated Robert Hungaski 1½-½ in the first round, 19th seed Francisco Vallejo Pons 1½-½ in the second round, 46th seed Matthias Bluebaum 1½-½ in the...
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    2639  Vadim Zvjaginsev (RUS), 2638  Mikhail Gurevich (BEL), 2633  Francisco Vallejo Pons (ESP), 2630  Rustem Dautov (GER), 2630  Konstantin Sakaev (RUS)...
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    Adams (England) 2742 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ 1 ½ Does not appear ½ ½ ½ 1 6 2730 6  Francisco Vallejo Pons (Spain) 2629 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ Does not appear ½ 1 5 2692 7  Alexei...
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    Aleksandrov (Belarus) 2668  Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia) 2667  Francisco Vallejo Pons (Spain) 2666  Viktor Bologan (Moldova) 2665  Konstantin Sakaev (Russia)...
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    com. Retrieved 2008-06-27. Page 10 mentions the Vallejo Pons–Kasparov game. "Francisco Vallejo Pons vs. Garry Kasparov, Moscow 2004". Chessgames.com...
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    first board performance, which included wins over Richard Rapport, Francisco Vallejo Pons and the former FIDE world champions Ruslan Ponomariov and Veselin...
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    Wei won the 27th Magistral de León rapid tournament by defeating Francisco Vallejo Pons in the final. In August, he played on the reserve board for China...
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    2022, he played for Belgium at the 44th Chess Olympiad, losing to Francisco Vallejo Pons (whom he had defeated in their previous encounter) during their...
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    Matthias Bluebaum, Nikita Vitiugov, Miloš Perunović, Ni Hua, and Francisco Vallejo Pons, taking second place on tiebreak. In March 2017 Fedoseev came first...
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  • 2004, p. 11. Arizmendi & Moreno 2004, p. 86. Emms 2003, p. 39-41. "Francisco Vallejo-Pons vs. Garry Kasparov (2004)". Chessgames.com. Retrieved 2008-01-19...
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     Vladislav Tkachiev (FRA), 2661  Krishnan Sasikiran (IND), 2661  Francisco Vallejo Pons (ESP), 2660  Predrag Nikolić (BIH), 2657  David Navara (CZE), 2656...
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  • with opposite-coloured bishops within the 50-move limit against Francisco Vallejo Pons in 2019. Even with best play from the starting RB v BN position...
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