Axel Bachmann

Full name	Axel Bachmann Schiavo
Country	Paraguay
Born	November 4, 1989 Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Title	Grandmaster
Peak rating	2652 (July 2014)

Axel Bachmann Schiavo (born November 4, 1989, in Ciudad del Este) is a Paraguayan chess player who holds the Grandmaster title. He won the 5th Iberoamerican Chess Championship held in Linares, Jaén, Spain in 2014.

Career

Bachmann won, or tied for first, the following tournaments:

• Pan American Under-16 Championship in Camboriú, Brazil (2005)
• Magistral Mercosur (2007)
• Rochefort International Chess Festival (2014)
• 30th Cappelle-la-Grande Open (2014)
• Iași International Chess Festival (2014)
• Golden Sands Open (2014)
• World Open 2015
• Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona 2015

Bachmann played for Paraguay in the Chess Olympiads:

• of 2004 in Calvià, on the second board (+5 -5 =2)
• of 2006 in Turin, on board three (+6 -2 =4)
• of 2008 in Dresden, on the first board (+4 -4 =2)
• of 2012 in Istanbul, on board one (+5 -3 =2).
• of 2014 in Tromsø, on the top board (+2 -3 =4)

Notable games

• Andrey Vovk vs Axel Bachmann, 2014, Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78), 0-1