He chess Argentina has several gems that deserve attention, dedication, training and help for their best development towards a promising future. And this time the protagonist of the news is Ilan Schneiderbecause the former world number one at 8 years old just achieved his second international master standard at 13so if he gets a third he would become the youngest Argentine in history to obtain the title prior to grandmaster.
The kid wreaked havoc on the ITT tournament organized by the White Tower Chess Circle, historic Almagro club and constant trainer of talents like Ilan. There the teenager won with 6.5 points in 9 roundsso he achieved the second of the three standards requested by the International Chess Federation to be an international master.
Ilan’s path in the tournament was remarkable. He won four of the first five games Agustín Meza Astradato the FIDE masters Andrés Pérez Candelas (Venezuela) and Agustin Villarrealand the international master Jaime Romero Barreto (Venezuela).
He entered into the second with the MI Nahuel DiazArgentine who plays with the Uruguayan flag, and in the sixth round he succumbed to taking too many risks against the FIDE master Juan Martin Ibarra. He had to get two points in the last three rounds and he got them by beating MF Antonio Almiron (Paraguay) and by tying with MI Pablo Acosta and the M.F. Ariel Tokman.
Joaquín Fiorito, who lives in Spain with his brother Francisco, father Fabián and mother Roxana, is the youngest international teacher in the country, because he achieved the title at the age of 15. Schnaider, 13 years and two months old, is on its way to surpassing that precocity record. He achieved his first norm in the Pan American Sub 20 in 2023 -yes, at 12-, by finishing third with 6.5 in 9.
In that tournament played in November in Volta Redonda, Brazil, Faustino Oro He placed eighth with 5.5. At age 10, the argentine diamond Now also residing in Spain with his parents, he already has an international master’s standard, achieved last September in Comodoro Rivadavia.
It is clear why there is talk of a historic young generation for national chess, to which we must add Candela Belén Francisco Guecamburu, world youth champion at the age of 17 in Mexico.
Ilan Schnaider, 13, won the ITT in Torre Blanca and achieved his second international chess master standard.In December 2019, Clarion published a special report on the daily life of Ilan, who was the best Under 8 chess player in the world. There was a tour of his trilingual primary school (Spanish, English and Hebrew) and a chat with teachers of this Boca fan who added a triple daily shift with chess classes. There was chocolate at snack, a game in which he gave no chance and the challenge of putting together the Rubik’s cube.
The pandemic disrupted their growth because training and games online They were not the same. Nothing like the adrenaline of playing tournaments. That’s why when the light returned to everyday life Ilan regained the joy of playing chess face to face. And he came back like a storm.
He warned last March by sharing second place – he came fifth by tie-breaker system – in the II FAOGBA International Open, in Ciudadela. There he defeated two international masters and drew with the Spanish grandmaster Jose Cuenca Jimenez. He did not make MI a rule for those things in the regulations. But this Monday he gave it to him. And now he will go for the third and the long-awaited title. All at just 13 years old.