| Diego Flores | |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Birth Date: | 18 December 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| Grandmaster (2008) | |
| Peakrating: | 2634 (November 2018) |
| Fideid: | 108049 |
Diego Flores (born 18 December 1982) is an Argentine chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2008. He is a five-time Argentine Chess Champion.[1]
He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2017. Flores won the Argentine Chess Championships of 2005, 2009,[2] 2012[3] 2016,[4] and 2017. Flores has played for the Argentine national team in the Chess Olympiad, the Pan-American Team Chess Championship and the Mercosur Chess Olympiad.[5]
In 2010 he won the 2nd Magistral Marcel Duchamp round-robin tournament in Buenos Aires, edging out Sandro Mareco on tiebreak.[6] [7] In the same year Flores was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the top five chess players of the decade in Argentina.[8] In 2011, he tied for 1st–2nd place with Alexandr Fier in the 2nd Latin American Cup in Montevideo, finishing second on tiebreak.[9] The following year Flores tied for first place in the American Continental Championship, held in Mar del Plata, with Julio Granda Zuñiga, Alexander Shabalov, Gregory Kaidanov and Eric Hansen.[10]
He is also the chess columnist in Junín's daily Diario Democracia since 2004.[11]