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Axel Bachmann

Paraguayan chess grandmaster

Axel Bachmann
Bachmann at the World Rapid Chess Championship 2015, Berlin
Full name	Axel Bachmann Schiavo
Country	Paraguay
Born	(1989-11-04) 4 November 1989 (age 34) Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Title	Grandmaster (2007)
FIDE rating	2560 (June 2024)
Peak rating	2662 (July 2017)
Peak ranking	No. 85 (July 2017)

Axel Bachmann Schiavo (born 4 November 1989) is a Paraguayan chess player who holds the Grandmaster title.

Biography

Bachmann went to study to the University of Texas at Brownsville on a chess scholarship due to a recommendation by Peruvian grandmaster Daniel Fernandez. There, Bachmann was a teammate and training partner of Chilean grandmaster Mauricio Flores Ríos.^[1]

Bachmann won the 5th Iberoamerican Chess Championship held in Linares, Jaén, Spain in 2014.^[2]

Career

Bachmann won, or tied for first, the following tournaments:

Pan American Under-16 Championship in Camboriú, Brazil (2005)
Magistral Mercosur (2007)
Rochefort International Chess Festival (2014)
30th Cappelle-la-Grande Open (2014)
Iași International Chess Festival (2014)
Golden Sands Open (2014)
World Open 2015
Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona 2015

Bachmann played for Paraguay in the Chess Olympiads:^[3]

of 2004 in Calvià, on the second board (+5 -5 =2)
of 2006 in Turin, on board three (+6 -2 =4)
of 2008 in Dresden, on the first board (+4 -4 =2)
of 2012 in Istanbul, on board one (+5 -3 =2)
of 2014 in Tromsø, on the top board (+2 -3 =4)

Notable games

Andrey Vovk vs Axel Bachmann, 2014, Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78), 0-1

References

^ Flores Rios, Mauricio (2015). Chess Structures: A Grandmaster guide. Glasgow: Quality Chess UK. ISBN 978-1-78483-000-7.
^ "GM Axel Bachmann is 2014 FIBDA champion". Chessdom. 2014-07-31. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
^ Axel Bachmann team chess record at OlimpBase