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gilberto hernandez , dresden 2008 2572 -lrb- july 2000 -rrb- san luis potosí , mexico grandmaster 5100011 4 february 1970 gilberto eduardo hernández guerrero hernandez guerrero gilberto 20081119 olympiade dresden.jpg gilberto hernández guerrero
 gilberto hernandez
gilberto hernández guerrero

gilberto hernández guerrero -lrb- born february 4 , 1970 in Ébano , san luis potosí -rrb- is a chess grandmaster from mexico .
on the july 2008 fide rating list he has an elo rating of 2550 , making him the second highest ranked player on the mexican elo-list .
he was the highest ranked mexican player in most of the 1990s and 2000nd .
at age 5 , hernández learnt the basics of chess .
at age 8 , he played his first tournament .
as an 11-year-old he became champion of his state and also took the bronze medal in the world under 12 championship held in xalapa .
in spite of the absence of a trainer , he became national master at 14 and fide master at 16 after winning the gold medal at the pan-american under-16 championship in puerto rico .
as a 17-year-old he participated in a zonal tournament held in cuba , where he got his first international master norm .
after that success he received invitations to play in five more tournaments , so he stayed on the island for three months , which helped him to develop further .
he also returned to cuba at the age of 19 to attempt his last im norm .
he got it with a gap of 1.5 points .
by that time , he already had a rating of 2520 .
in 1990 , hernández played in the open tournament in lyon , france .
he scored 8 out of 9 points beating well-known grandmasters like former world junior champion vladimir akopian and artashes minasian to become champion of the tournament .
he continued to maintain a rating above 2500 , and he received the grandmaster title in 1995 .
gilberto hernández has played 7 olympiads and with more than 10 years living out of his country , he has won more than 40 international tournaments .
his most important results against elite chess players include his triumphs over alexei shirov , vladimir akopian , boris gulko , tony miles and alexander rustemov and his draws with alexander khalifman , viktor korchnoi , judit polgár , boris gelfand , joël lautier , jeroen piket , among others .
he is married to claudia amura , a woman chess grandmaster from argentina .
