Luca Moroni

Luca Moroni
Luca Moroni in 2015
Country Italy
Born (2000-07-01) 1 July 2000 (age 24)
Desio, Italy
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2550 (December 2024)
Peak rating2601 (January 2024)

Luca Moroni (born 1 July 2000) is an Italian chess grandmaster. He is three times Italian Champion in 2017, 2022 and 2023, and winner of chess' Mitropa Cup in 2021. He represented Italian Team at Chess Olympiads in 2016, 2018 and 2022[1] and at Online Chess Olympiads in 2020.[2]

Career

Moroni was born in Desio, a town near Milan. He learned playing chess at 6, won the silver medal at World Youth Championship in Under-16 category in 2015[3] and earned the title of International Master at 16 in 2016.[4]

In 2015, he achieved his first grandmaster norm at Italian Chess Championship.[5] In December he played a simul with 120 games, overtaking the former national record of Italian Grandmaster Sergio Mariotti.[6]

In 2016, he took part in his first Chess Olympiad in Baku, where he achieved his second grandmaster norm.[7] He earned the title of Grandmaster in August, going beyond 2,500 Elo points.[8]

In 2017, he won the Italian Chess Championship in Cosenza at 17, becoming the youngest Italian Chess Champion after Fabiano Caruana, who earned the title at 15 in 2007.[9]

In 2018, he was 1st at European Individual Rapid Championship in Skopje, but finished 4th for tiebreak criteria. He was on 2nd place at World Youth Championship in Porto Carras in Under 18 category, but 4th for tiebreak.

References

  1. ^ "44esime Olimpiadi degli scacchi: Chennai 2022" (in Italian). Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Olimpiadi online: convocazioni Italia" (in Italian). Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Scacchi - Il monzese Luca Moroni vice-campione del mondo Under 16" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Axel stacca tutti. Moroni conquista già il titolo di Maestro Internazionale" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Luca Moroni batte Borgo: sua anche la norma di Grande Maestro" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Record Italiano partite in simultanea: Luca Moroni contro 120 giocatori. Cade il record di Mariotti" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Olimpiadi 2016: Grazie Italia!" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  8. ^ "Moroni diventa il 16º GM italiano!" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  9. ^ "Luca Moroni: a 17 anni Campione Italiano Assoluto di scacchi" (in Italian). Retrieved 17 February 2024.