{"id":41507,"date":"2025-12-06T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=41507"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:40:15","slug":"diego-flores-wins-100th-argentine-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/diego-flores-wins-100th-argentine-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Flores wins 100th Argentine Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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GM Diego Flores<\/strong> emerged as the winner of the 2025 Argentine Championship, claiming his\u00a0eighth<\/strong>\u00a0national title. The champion scored an impressive 8.5\/11 and was the only player to complete the event undefeated. With this victory, Flores has equaled the legendary Miguel Najdorf<\/strong>‘s record for the most titles in the history of the competition.<\/p>

The 100th edition of the Argentine Championship, a 12-player round-robin tournament, took place at Buenos Aires City Hall from November 25 to December 5.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Flores entered the competition as the top seed and confirmed his status as the pre-tournament favorite. After a relatively slow start with two draws, he picked up steam, took the lead by winning three straight games, and never relinquished it. As fate would have it, the final 11th round featured a clash between the leader and his closest rival, the 2021 champion Federico Perez Ponsa<\/strong>. With a full-point cushion, Flores played solid chess and secured the title after a draw was agreed on move 37.<\/p>

Perez Ponsa finished a point behind the champion, taking silver with 7.5\/11. GMs Diego Valerga<\/strong> and Leonardo Tristan<\/strong> both scored 7\/11 and tied for third place, with Valerga claiming the final podium spot due to a greater number of victories.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The young prodigy IM Faustino Oro<\/strong> turned in a solid performance, netting 6.5\/11 and tying for fifth place.<\/p>

Final standings<\/strong>:<\/p>

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GM Diego Flores emerged as the winner of the 2025 Argentine Championship, claiming his\u00a0eighth\u00a0national title. The champion scored an impressive 8.5\/11 and was the only player to complete the event undefeated. With this victory, Flores has equaled the legendary Miguel Najdorf‘s record for the most titles in the history of the competition. The 100th edition of the Argentine Championship, a 12-player round-robin tournament, took place at Buenos Aires City Hall from November 25 to December 5. Flores entered the competition as the top seed and confirmed his status as the pre-tournament favorite. After a relatively slow start with two draws, he picked up steam, took the lead by winning three straight games, and never relinquished it. As fate would have it, the final 11th round featured a clash between the leader and his closest rival, the 2021 champion Federico Perez Ponsa. With a full-point cushion, Flores played solid chess and secured the title after a draw was agreed on move 37. Perez Ponsa finished a point behind the champion, taking silver with 7.5\/11. GMs Diego Valerga and Leonardo Tristan both scored 7\/11 and tied for third place, with Valerga claiming the final podium spot due to a greater number of victories. The young prodigy IM Faustino Oro turned in a solid performance, netting 6.5\/11 and tying for fifth place. Final standings: 1 GM Diego Flores 2563 8\u00bd 2 GM Federico Perez Ponsa 2528 7\u00bd 3 GM Diego Valerga 2420 7 4 GM Leonardo Tristan 2487 7 5 IM Faustino Oro 2495 6\u00bd 6 IM Pablo Ismael Acosta 2501 6\u00bd 7 IM Julian Villca 2391 6 8 IM Mario Villanueva 2465 5\u00bd 9 FM Carlos David Gomez 2407 4 10 IM Cristian Dolezal 2374 3\u00bd 11 WGM Candela Guecamburu 2238 2\u00bd 12 IM Pablo Barrionuevo 2260 1\u00bd Photos: FADA Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[66,297],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-41507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-argentina","tag-national-championship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41507"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41541,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41507\/revisions\/41541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41507"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=41507"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=41507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}