Axel Bachmann

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bachmann and the second or maternal family name is Schiavo.

Axel Bachmann Schiavo (born 4 November 1989) is a Paraguayan chess player who holds the Grandmaster title.

Axel Bachmann

Bachmann in 2023
Personal information
Born	Axel Bachmann Schiavo (1989-11-04) 4 November 1989 (age 35) Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Chess career
Country	Paraguay
Title	Grandmaster (2007)
FIDE rating	2578 (October 2025)
Peak rating	2662 (July 2017)
Peak ranking	No. 85 (July 2017)

Biography

Bachmann went to study to the University of Texas at Brownsville on a chess scholarship due to a recommendation by Peruvian-American Grandmaster Daniel Fernandez. There, Bachmann was a teammate and training partner of Chilean grandmaster Mauricio Flores Ríos.^[1]

Bachmann won the 5th Iberoamerican Chess Championship held in Linares, Jaén, Spain in 2014.^[2]

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:^[3]

• 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