Post by pigeonpie on Aug 26, 2008 9:58:23 GMT
The Grand Master Minorcan ends today its holiday on the island, which has been accompanied by Veselin Topalov, number four in the world according to the International Chess Federation (Fide)
Maria Solá Maó
September is the fall and he is approaching the end of the summer holidays. The chess Minorcan Paco Vallejo (Es Castell, 1982) is no exception and, after ten days on the island, now returns again to Palma, where their training will continue for the next Chess Olympiad in Dresden, to be held in the German city between 12 and November 25. The Bulgarian Grand Master Veselin Topalov (Ruse, 1975), who was world champion in 2005 and currently occupies the fourth position worldwide with 2,767 ELO points, has enjoyed near Vallejo of these "semivacaciones" in Minorca. "We ido to the beach and browsed though daily devote three or four hours a chess," says the Minorcan.
Vallejo was a precocious chess. With just 5 years swarm by the Centre for Culture and Es Castell, without knowing very well how he began to earn their own teachers.At the age of 11 Vallejo moved to Galicia, where he studied and trained with various ajedrecistas elite, including the Grand Master Zenón Paraguayan Franco. With 16 years Vallejo won the title of Grand Master, thus becoming the youngest chess Spanish in achieving this.
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Maria Solá Maó
September is the fall and he is approaching the end of the summer holidays. The chess Minorcan Paco Vallejo (Es Castell, 1982) is no exception and, after ten days on the island, now returns again to Palma, where their training will continue for the next Chess Olympiad in Dresden, to be held in the German city between 12 and November 25. The Bulgarian Grand Master Veselin Topalov (Ruse, 1975), who was world champion in 2005 and currently occupies the fourth position worldwide with 2,767 ELO points, has enjoyed near Vallejo of these "semivacaciones" in Minorca. "We ido to the beach and browsed though daily devote three or four hours a chess," says the Minorcan.
Vallejo was a precocious chess. With just 5 years swarm by the Centre for Culture and Es Castell, without knowing very well how he began to earn their own teachers.At the age of 11 Vallejo moved to Galicia, where he studied and trained with various ajedrecistas elite, including the Grand Master Zenón Paraguayan Franco. With 16 years Vallejo won the title of Grand Master, thus becoming the youngest chess Spanish in achieving this.
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