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Damian Lemos

Number of games in database: 210
Years covered: 2003 to 2019
Last FIDE rating: 2479 (2504 rapid, 2501 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2559
Overall record: +70 -42 =98 (56.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Indian (23) 
    E63 E62 E67 E69 E60
 Queen's Pawn Game (13) 
    D05 D02 A40 A46 D04
 Slav (9) 
    D12 D10 D16
 Nimzo Indian (8) 
    E32 E36 E34
 Modern Benoni (8) 
    A58 A77 A70 A57 A62
 Queen's Gambit Declined (7) 
    D37 D38 D30
With the Black pieces:
 French Defense (24) 
    C11 C02 C12 C16 C01
 King's Indian (20) 
    E63 E92 E60 E97 E81
 Sicilian (10) 
    B43 B28 B62 B22 B56
 French (9) 
    C11 C12 C00 C10
 Ruy Lopez (8) 
    C91 C78 C77 C75 C68
 English (8) 
    A10 A15 A11
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   D Lemos vs Carlsen, 2003 1/2-1/2
   D Lemos vs C Vernay, 2010 1-0
   D Flores vs D Lemos, 2012 1/2-1/2
   Larsen vs D Lemos, 2008 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   3rd Marcel Duchamp GM (2011)
   Olympiad Mercosur (2009)
   Magistral Internacional Ruibal (2008)
   Argentine Championship (2008)
   Argentine Championship (2004)
   Graz Open-A (2017)
   Gibraltar Masters (2010)
   American Continental (2003)
   Gibraltar Masters (2011)
   Gibraltar Masters (2017)
   Sunway Sitges Open (2016)
   Gibraltar Masters (2019)
   Reykjavik Open (2017)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Southend Easter Masters
   I Gourlay vs D Lemos (Apr-19-19) 1/2-1/2
   H Grieve vs D Lemos (Apr-18-19) 1/2-1/2
   D Lemos vs M Munoz Pantoja (Apr-01-19) 1/2-1/2
   D Lemos vs R Jumabayev (Jan-29-19) 1/2-1/2
   D Lemos vs M Cornette (Jan-28-19) 1/2-1/2

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DAMIAN LEMOS
(born Apr-02-1990, 35 years old) Argentina

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Grandmaster.

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 page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 210  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. D Lemos vs L Perdomo  ½-½352003Villa Ballester op 53thE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
2. J Gonzalez Garcia vs D Lemos  1-0402003American ContinentalA15 English
3. A Wojtkiewicz vs D Lemos 1-0412003American ContinentalE63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation
4. D Lemos vs P Lopez Rebert  1-0542003American ContinentalA40 Queen's Pawn Game
5. D Schneider vs D Lemos  1-0402003American ContinentalC02 French, Advance
6. D Lemos vs O Sagalchik  0-1372003American ContinentalD02 Queen's Pawn Game
7. D Lemos vs S Arenas ½-½882003American ContinentalD02 Queen's Pawn Game
8. C Jorge vs D Lemos  0-1452003American ContinentalA45 Queen's Pawn Game
9. D Lemos vs G Soppe  ½-½392003American ContinentalD02 Queen's Pawn Game
10. D Lemos vs S Mareco  1-0322003Najdorf U26 qual opE60 King's Indian Defense
11. D Lemos vs Carlsen ½-½582003World Youth Championship (U14)E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
12. J Goh vs D Lemos  1-0582003World Youth Championship (U14)E71 King's Indian, Makagonov System (5.h3)
13. D Lemos vs L Perdomo  ½-½152004Villa Ballester op 54thE69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line
14. D Lemos vs F Abbasov  0-1512004Internet Section 07A g/8'+2A46 Queen's Pawn Game
15. D Flores vs D Lemos  1-0342004Ricardo Bosco memE92 King's Indian
16. D Lemos vs R Hungaski  0-1522004Ricardo Bosco memD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
17. J Barrientos-Medina vs D Lemos  0-1482004Argentine ChampionshipC05 French, Tarrasch
18. D Lemos vs G Soppe  0-1482004Argentine ChampionshipD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
19. D Lemos vs P Della Morte  ½-½302004Argentine ChampionshipE60 King's Indian Defense
20. R Lucio Vidmar vs D Lemos  0-1292004Argentine ChampionshipE92 King's Indian
21. C Lujan vs D Lemos  ½-½592004Argentine ChampionshipB25 Sicilian, Closed
22. D Lemos vs G Malbran ½-½682004Argentine ChampionshipA43 Old Benoni
23. L Perdomo vs D Lemos  1-0772004Argentine ChampionshipE54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System
24. D Lemos vs P Leeuw  1-0352004Argentine ChampionshipA90 Dutch
25. C Cranbourne vs D Lemos  0-1562004Argentine ChampionshipC19 French, Winawer, Advance
 page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 210  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-08-09  wordfunph: ey guys, Damian Lemos was listed in ICC with handle as "Blitz-King" as a GM but i could not find a confirmation citing him as a GM in FIDE. Could someone affirm the real story please? Thanks..
May-07-09  BIDMONFA: Damian Lemos

LEMOS, Damian
http://www.bidmonfa.com/lemos_damia...
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May-07-09  waustad: His FIDE card http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... has him as both unrated and a Grandmaster. What gives? He's from Argentina. They have a chart for him and lots of games through 2009, but call him unrated.
May-07-09  myschkin: . . .

According to the Polish Wiki he became GM in 2009:

"Damián Lemos (ur. 2 kwietnia 1990 w Buenos Aires) – argentyñski szachista, <arcymistrz> od 2009 roku." http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dami%C...

You could ask him via: http://www.chessclub.com/finger/Bli...

Jun-14-09  wordfunph: <myschkin> thanks for the info..
Apr-14-10  Caissanist: <waustad> most Latin American players have been listed as unrated at one time or another in the past few years, and the problem always goes away after a few weeks or months. My guess is it's because their national federations aren't paying FIDE the money that it wants.
Apr-15-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: He's mentioned at http://roadtograndmaster.com
Jul-22-14  cro777: GM Damian Lemos (2522, peak rating 2559 September 2009) was no stranger to success at an early age, achieving the FIDE Master title at 14 years old, International Master at 15, and Grandmaster at 18. He is a former Pan-American Junior Champion.

Recently, Everyman Chess published his book: "Opening Repertoire: The Fianchetto System - Weapons for White against the King's Indian and Grünfeld".

http://www.everymanchess.com/extrac...

May-22-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: https://www.ichess.net/10gmsecrets-...
Sep-06-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Just like to share a story I just came across about this player:

" Are you wondering why so many people get stuck at the 1500-1900 FIDE chess level without making any progress despite countless studying and practice?

You are not alone. Dozens of students around this skill hit a glass ceiling despite continued study of tactics and games, and more.

< We recently reached out to Argentine Grandmaster Damian Lemos, > whose ascent to becoming a Grandmaster is very different than your typical story:

< As a kid he showed incredible potential, > reaching 2000 FIDE level at only 10 years old while putting minimal effort into formal study beyond just practicing casual games.

Around this time he began to take chess more seriously and began studying tactics for hours-and-hours each week. Unfortunately by the time he was 12, he was actually rated lower for much of the year! What was he doing wrong? Was formal study actually hurting his game?

He began to read more books on tactics, memorize and study openings to a deeper level, scrutinize his own games, and play in more tournaments. By this point he was studying chess 25+ hours per week and it was basically his only extracurricular activity besides school at this point. This went on for nearly 2 years.

< Did he become a Grandmaster? Hardly. By early 2004 he had barely gained 100 points. > It would make him so angry to see his peers continue to seem to become better while studying less. Maybe he was one of those many children who showed promising results as a child 'chess prodigy' that never translated into the adult world.

By early 2005 he had had enough. He was not going to give up and knew by this point that the problem was in the way he was studying. We are sure many of you have heard of the 'Pareto Principle' (also known as the 80/20 rule) and < so he began to completely rework the way he studied for chess, > eliminating activities that had little gain and focusing on those that seemed to bring him the best return.

The results were shocking. The biggest mistake most club level players make is not shifting the WAY they study chess after they reach a certain level, and instead dedicate more time to studying the wrong way.

We think that when you hit this rating level, you need a massive paradigm shift in the way you think about improving your chess. Studying tactics and memorizing openings till your eyes bleed are no longer going to cut it. You need to learn the way Grandmasters think, which is completely different from the way club players think.

< The results in the system he built for himself were insane. > In early 2005 he didn't have a FIDE title. By 2006 he zoomed past the IM title and less than 30 months after that he became a 2500 GM.

He never shared this secret study system he put together that year (except for a few lucky students he privately tutored, of course). "

(no link)

Feb-02-17  Octavia: he's playing in Gibraltar!
Jan-13-18  pazzed paun: <penguincw>
You copied and pasted a commercial advertisement That post should be banned from this forum
Jan-13-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: < pazzed paun: <penguincw> You copied and pasted a commercial advertisement That post should be banned from this forum >

What seems to be the problem? I don't see an ad here, and even if there is an ad, that post was not intended to be an ad. It highlighted a story I found about this guy (can't remember where; it was over a year ago), and it's a nice story. It tells of a chess player who put more and more hours into chess, but never seemed to get better. However, he figured out that instead of actually putting in more hours, he decided to make better use of those hours, changing the way he studied, and well, the results came.

Mar-07-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  louispaulsen88888888: ICC just emailed me “mastering the London System with GM Damian Lemos”. I just checked to see how often Mr. Lemos played the London System himself. Not surprisingly, the answer is zero.

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