Francisco Vallejo Pons

Chess Player

1982 –

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Who is Francisco Vallejo Pons?

Francisco Vallejo Pons is a chess Grandmaster from Spain. He was a chess prodigy, achieving the grandmaster title at the age of 16 years and 9 months, which makes him the 20th youngest player to ever become a grandmaster. He won the under-18 World Chess Youth Championship in 2000.

His fans often refer to him as Paco, a common nickname for Francisco in Spanish.

He won jubilee Ciudad de Leon Masters by beating Veselin Topalov 3½-2½.

In 2013 he tied for 1st–8th with Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Romanov, Alexander G Beliavsky, Constantin Lupulescu, Hrant Melkumyan, Sergei Movsesian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexey Dreev and Evgeny Alekseev in the European Individual Chess Championship.

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Born
Aug 21, 1982
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Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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