Luís Galego

Not to be confused with Luis Gallego or Luis Gallegos.

Luís Galego (born in Porto, Portugal, 25 April 1966) is a Portuguese chess grandmaster. He represented Portugal in ten Chess Olympiads (at top board since 2002), achieved a peak Elo rating of 2543, and was national champion five times, most recently in 2012.

Luís Galego

Personal information
Born	(1966-04-25) April 25, 1966 (age 59) Porto, Portugal
Chess career
Country	Portugal
Title	Grandmaster (2002)
FIDE rating	2426 (October 2025)
Peak rating	2543 (April 2006)

In 2006, he tied for 2nd–9th with Luke McShane, Stephen J. Gordon, Gawain Jones, Šarūnas Šulskis, Danny Gormally, Klaus Bischoff and Karel van der Weide in the 2nd EU Individual Open Chess Championship in Liverpool.^[1]

As of March 2011, his rating is 2500, making him Portugal's top player.