Lexy Ortega
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Lexy Ortega is an Italian chess
Chess
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 Grandmaster.

Born in 1960 at Camagüey
Camagüey
Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.After almost continuous attacks from pirates the original city was moved inland in 1528.The new city was built with a confusing lay-out of winding alleys that made...

, Cuba
Cuba
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, in 1991 he emigrated to Italy, tranferring his nationality and playing for this country ever since.

As a youth he was a judo
Judo
is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...

 champion, but a broken foot incident (1974) abruptly ended his martial arts career. Thereafter he turned completely to chess, and very soon he won the 1978 Cuban junior chess championship (Under-18).

In 1986 he was the second of Walter Arencibia
Walter Arencibia
Walter Arencibia is a Cuban chess grandmaster. He learned chess at the age of eight and has won various tournaments, including the 1986 World Junior Chess Championship, for which he automatically gained the International Master title. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1990...

 when he won the World Junior Chess Championship
World Junior Chess Championship
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 in Gausdal
Gausdal
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. He has been for some years the trainer of the Mexican national chess team.

In the year 2000 he was awarded the Grandmaster title from FIDE.

Ortega was the captain of the Italian Women national team at the 38th Chess Olympiad
38th Chess Olympiad
The 38th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between 12–25 November 2008, in Dresden, Germany and was won by Armenia.The 2010 Olympiad is...

 in Dresden
Dresden
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, where it ended in 12th place out of 114 teams, its best result ever.

In 2009 he won the Italian Chess Championship
Italian Chess Championship
The Italian Chess Federation , was established in 1920.The first Italian Chess Championship took place at Viareggio 1921.The 1998 Championship was held 21–29 November in Saint-Vincent....

, after a play-off with Michele Godena
Michele Godena
Michele Godena is an Italian chess player and many times the national champion.A resident of Finale Ligure, he achieved the title of International Grandmaster in 1996, following a plus score on board one for Italy at the Yerevan Olympiad...

.

He lives in Rome, is married and has two children.

Other results:
  • 1986: equal 3rd-4th at Yerevan
    Yerevan
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    , in a field that included Mikhail Tal
    Mikhail Tal
    Mikhail Tal was a Soviet–Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion.Widely regarded as a creative genius, and the best attacking player of all time, he played a daring, combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability....

    , Oleg Romanishin
    Oleg Romanishin
    Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and former European junior champion.Many honours and awards were bestowed on him as a young man. After winning the European Junior Championship in 1973, he became an International Master the same year...

    , Yuri Balashov
    Yuri Balashov
    -Chess career:He was awarded the grandmaster title in 1973. Balashov was Moscow Champion in 1970 and 2nd to Anatoly Karpov in the 1976 USSR Chess Championship. In 1977 he won Lithuanian Chess Championship. He finished 1st= at Lone Pine 1977 and 1st= at Wijk aan Zee 1982.Balashov represented the...

     and Lev Psakhis
    Lev Psakhis
    Lev Borisovich Psakhis is a naturalised Israeli chess grandmaster, trainer and author. Born in Siberia, he is also a two-time former champion of the Soviet Union.-Biography:...

  • 1988: 3rd in the Cuban championship (repeated in 1989)
  • 1993: =1st with Sinisa Drazič at Rome (INPS Festival)
  • 1994: 1st in Naples; 2nd at Imperia
    Imperia
    Imperia may be:* Imperia , an Italian city* Province of Imperia, the Italian province of the above city of Imperia* IMPERIA, a vodka produced by Russian Standard* Imperia , a statue in Constance, Germany...

     after Sergei Tiviakov
    Sergei Tiviakov
    Sergei Tiviakov is a naturalised Dutch chess Grandmaster.Tiviakov won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, in Plovdiv, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with 8.5/11....

  • 1996: 1st at Amantea
    Amantea
    Amantea is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.It is a touristical centre on the southern Tyrrhenian Sea coast...

    ; wins the 28th Italian Team chess championship with "Circolo Scacchistico Averno" of Naples
  • 1997: 1st at Verona
    Verona
    Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

    .
  • 1999: 1st at Padova

External links

  • Lexy Ortega on Chessgames.com
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