Christo Cave

{{Short description|Trinidadian chess player}}

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{{Infobox chess player

| name = Christo Cave

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| country = Trinidad and Tobago

| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|19 December 1961}}

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| title = FIDE Master (2006)

| rating = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/7700113/chart 2142] (March 2010)

| peakrating = 2296 (January 2000){{cite web |url=https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Cave,%20Christo.html |title=FIDE rating history :: Cave, Christo |website=OlimpBase.org |access-date=12 December 2021}}

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Christo Cave (born 19 December 1961) is a chess player from Tunapuna on the island of Trinidad, in Trinidad and Tobago. Cave is a former National Chess Champion and holds the record of thirteen wins in the Trinidad and Tobago Chess Championship.{{cite web |url=http://legacy.guardian.co.tt/archives/2005-09-19/SA-3.html |title=Are champions born or made? Probing the mystery of Christo Cave |work=The Trinidad Guardian |first=Carl |last=Jacobs |date=14 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231427/https://legacy.guardian.co.tt/archives/2005-09-19/SA-3.html |archive-date=3 March 2016}}

He is a FIDE Master (FM) and has represented Trinidad and Tobago as the board 1 player at a number of World Chess Olympiads.{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/39z9tvdd.html |title=Chess Olympiads :: Christo Cave |website=OlimpBase.org |access-date=12 December 2021}} In 2006, he became the first chess player from the English speaking Caribbean to defeat an International Grandmaster at a major team tournament.{{cite web |url=http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/print,0,38353.html |title=Cave shocks Swede Grandmaster |work=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |date=31 May 2006}} He has also won several chess competitions locally.

After a short hiatus due to the illness of a family member, Cave returned to competitive chess in 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Cave_returns_to_national_action-119301924.html |title=Cave returns to National action |work=Trinidad and Tobago Express |date=6 April 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409061656/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Cave_returns_to_national_action-119301924.html |archive-date=9 April 2011 |access-date=19 June 2013}}