Chess-Yasser Quesada

Havana, January 2 (ACN)-- With a personal record of 2,604 Elo points, the leader of the Cuban chess ranking, Yasser Quesada, from Villaclareño Yasser Quesada, will be in the lead of the Cuban chess ranking during the whole month of January.

The addition of six units compared to the previous list took the current national champion to the unprecedented accumulated and he became the 12th player born on the island to surpass the barrier of 2,600.

In this way, he joins a select group headed by the great Jose Raul Capablanca, although he was calculated the accumulated post mortem, because it was not until the 70s of the last century that this type of classification began to be used.

Yasser had a personal record of 2,598 points between the months of October and December, and now his challenge will be to maintain and increase the figure that will be exhibited in the defense of his national crown at the end of January.

Second on the domestic list is Carlos Daniel Albornoz with 2,576 points, one less than in early December, but significantly lower than the 2,605 he showed throughout September.

Then, Luis Ernesto Quesada (2,551), Omar Almeida (2,531), Yuri González (2,525), Isán Ortiz (2,521), Roberto García (2,507), Dylan Berdayes (2,505), Ermes Espinosa (2,500) and Lelys Martínez (2,500) complete the top-ten of the Island.