Yasser Quesada

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Title: 
Grandmaster
Rating: 
2582
Federation: 
CUB
Age: 
27
Status: 
Accepted
Bio: 

Yasser is the twenty-seventh Cuban chess player to have been awarded the Grandmaster title, achieving this feat in 2015 at the Marcel Sisniega Memorial in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Considered to be one of Cuba’s biggest rising talents, Yasser played his first tournament at the age of five, winning the provincial championship a year later. He tied for eighth at the 2019 World Open and placed clear second at the 2019 Cuban Championship. Yasser’s older brother, Yuniesky, is also a Grandmaster.

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2019 Fall Chess Classic