Born in Milan in 1970, Alberto David moved to Luxembourg with his parents in 1974 and a year later learned how to play chess. Though he enjoyed some success in his youth in Luxembourg his real chess activities started in 1992 after finishing his studies in Philosophy in London. In 1996 he became a grandmaster and won the silver medal on board one at the 2002 Bled Olympics, followed by a gold medal at the European Team Championships in Plovdiv 2003. Under the Milanese Chess Society in 2012 he regained his Italian citizenship,and as a result of being the thrid highest rating in Italy (01/10/2012), he was invited to play in the Italian Championship.
With the top Italian Fabiano Caruana currently away in Bucharest, locking horns with Ivanchuk, Topalov and Nisipeanu, the title was left wide open to a number of hopeful grandmasters and masters. Though the field was hardly a pushover for David, he made it seem like it as he swept through, winning with a round to spare, ending on 8.5/11, a full point and a half ahead of the field.
Alberto David's move to Italy could hardly have been more successful
In second place was 18-year-old IM Guido Caprio (2380 FIDE), one of Italy's fastest rising stars. Born in Latina, Italy, in 1994, he learned to play chess at the age of ten, encouraged by his father, becoming the Italian under-14 champion in 2007. His first major leap though, was in 2011 in the Hundred Tournament, where he opened his account with three straight wins over grandmasters, and obtained his first IM norm, a title he earned this year.
In the 2012 Italian championship, he had a remarkably srong finish and came in second with 7.0/11 and a superb 2580 performance. His tiebreak was slightly better than Dvirnyy who came in third with the same score.
Here is one of his key wins:
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