Axel Bachmann Explained

Axel Bachmann
Birthname:	Axel Bachmann Schiavo
Country:	Paraguay
Birth Date:	4 November 1989
Birth Place:	Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Grandmaster (2007)
Peakrating:	2662 (July 2017)
Peakranking:	No. 85 (July 2017)
Fideid:	3700488

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

External links

• Axel Bachmann chess games at 365Chess.com

Notes and References

1. Book: Flores Rios, Mauricio . Chess Structures: A Grandmaster guide . Quality Chess UK . 2015 . 978-1-78483-000-7 . Glasgow.
2. Web site: GM Axel Bachmann is 2014 FIBDA champion. Chessdom. 8 October 2015. 2014-07-31.
3. http://www.olimpbase.org/players/222i80ye.html Axel Bachmann