Argentine Championship: Fernando Peralta wins fifth title

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Fernando Peralta defended his national title in the 98^th Argentine Chess Championship (98^vo Campeonato Argentino Superior). A native of Lomas de Zamora, he won this event for the fifth time, following his success in 2006, 2018, 2020 and 2022.

The 98^th Argentine Championship took place from October 28 to November 7 in Palacio de las Aguas Corrientes. The format remained unchanged: a twelve-player round-robin. But compared to last year’s edition, the 2023 championship was not as strong for obvious reasons. Alan Pichot (the former top-rated Argentinean player) changed federations, while Sandro Mareco (current #1) competed in the FIDE Grand Swiss on the Isle of Man.

Still, the tournament was a very close race among the top-rated participants that came down to the wire again. Coming into the final round, Fernando Peralta and Federico Pérez Ponsa jointly lead the field, a full point ahead of the chasing pack.

Peralta drew with the black pieces in a hectic game with Leonardo Krysa, while Pérez Ponsa did not manage to break the resistance of the second lowest-rated FM Ariel Tokman on the white side of Caro-Kann.

The deciding round-11 games

Argentine Chess Championship 2023

Tiebreaks

To determine the champion, a two-rapid-game tiebreak was played. Despite having unpleasant positions in both encounters at some point, Fernando Peralta drew the first one and pulled off a win in the second game to clinch the title.

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GM Leonardo Krysa and IM Pablo Ismael Actosta tied for third place, netting 7/11 each, with the former claiming bronze thanks to a slightly better Sonnenborn-Berger score.

Argentine Chess Championship 2023

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	5	GM	Peralta, Fernando	ARG	2580	8	0,5	6	39,50
2	11	GM	Perez Ponsa, Federico	ARG	2527	8	0,5	5	37,75
3	7	GM	Krysa, Leandro	ARG	2546	7	0,5	4	33,50
4	12	IM	Acosta, Pablo Ismael	ARG	2482	7	0,5	4	33,25
5	1	FM	Tokman, Ariel	ARG	2306	6,5	0	5	28,50
6	6	GM	Valerga, Diego	ARG	2428	6	1	3	30,50
7	4	GM	Tristan, Leonardo	ARG	2523	6	0	4	30,75
8	3	IM	Villca, Julian	ARG	2383	5,5	0	3	27,25
9	10	FM	Gomez, Carlos David	ARG	2331	4,5	0	2	22,50
10	9	WGM	Francisco Guecamburu, Candela Be	ARG	2345	3	0	1	13,25
11	2		Silva, Luca	ARG	2287	2,5	0	1	11,25
12	8	FM	Miranda, Rafael	ARG	2343	2	0	0	8,00