Francisco Vallejo Pons
Chess Player
1982 –
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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