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Jaime Santos Latasa
Jaime Santos
GM - SPAINAt 27 years of age, this lion is number 4 in the Spanish absolute chess ranking. In the 2017 edition he defeated Vishy Anand in one of the games of their match, which ended in a draw, the former world champion could only win in the final tiebreaker.
Last year, he drew with the Spanish number 1 GM Francisco Vallejo, also losing in the tiebreaker and showing a constant progression which places him as the most promising Spanish chess player.
2023 has been a great year for the GM from León, he was proclaimed European rapid champion and also finally managed to inscribe his name in the historical palmares of the magistral de León, winning the 36th edition of our event.
In 2020, in an online edition of the tournament for Covid-19, Jaime reached the final of the Magistral for the first time after defeating Alexey Shirov. In his encounter with Leinier Dominguez, the Cuban-American grandmaster won by the narrowest of margins after a tough fight. Santos was proclaimed co-champion of Spain in 2020 together with GM David Antón. In the 2020 Magistral Jaime eliminated chess legend Alexey Shirov and in 2021 he again came second in the Spanish championship and finally broke through the 2,600 ELO barrier. In 2022 he was among the 100 best players in the world and 2nd in the Spanish ranking behind Paco Vallejo.