Jordi Magem Badals

Jordi Magem Badals

Jordi Magem Badals at the 2008 Andorra Open.
Country  Spain
Born (1967-08-24) August 24, 1967
Barcelona, Spain
Title Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating 2537 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2593 (Nov 2010)

Jordi Magem Badals (born August 24, 1967 in Barcelona) is a Spanish chess Grandmaster.[1][2]

Chess Career

In 1981 Magem Badals won the Catalonian Junior Chess Championship. In 1983, he won the Catalonian and Spanish youth chess championships.[3][4]

Magem Badals won the Spanish Chess Championship in 1990, ahead of IM Marcelino Sion Castro. He has been runner-up on three other occasions, in 1986 behind Ángel Martín González, in 1993 behind Lluis Comas Fabregó and in 1997 behind Pablo San Segundo Carrillo.[5] He has won the Catalan Chess Championship twice, in 2008 and 2010, and was runner-up in 2009.[6]

Magem Badals played in the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 knockout matches in Las Vegas, United States, but was eliminated in round 3 by Judit Polgár.[7]

Magem Badals represented Spain in seven Chess Olympiads in Novi Sad 1990, Moscow 1994, Yerevan 1996, Elista 1998, Istanbul 2000, Bled 2002 and Khanty-Mansiysk 2010. His best result was in the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 where he scored 6/9 and finished 7th on board 4.[8] He also represented Spain in the European Team Chess Championship three times, in Debrecen 1992, Pula 1997 and Batumi 1999.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Jordi Magem Badals FIDE Player Profile, www.fide.com
  2. ↑ Jordi Magem Badals player profile and games at Chessgames.com
  3. ↑ Historial del Campionat Juvenil de Catalunya,www.escacs.cat
  4. ↑ Historial Campeonato de España Juvenil (sub-20), www.feda.org
  5. ↑ Historial Campeonato de España Individual Absoluto, www.feda.org
  6. ↑ Historial dels Campionats Individuals de Catalunya, www.escacs.cat
  7. ↑ World Chess Championship 1999 FIDE Knockout Matches Mark Weeks
  8. ↑ Jordi Magem Badals Chess Olympiad Results, www.olimpbase.org
  9. ↑ Jordi Magem Badals European Team Chess Championship Results, www.olimpbase.org

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