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Araque, Rafael

IM🇨🇴INACTIVE · since January 2025

FIDEFIDE 4400682· Male· Colombia· Born in 1968

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Rafael Araque, a 58-year-old Colombian International Master, is rated 2129 and sitting in the top 4% of Colombian players, and in the top 6% worldwide. He plays around 8 rated games per year and had 4 career breaks: 14 months (2007–2008), 122 months (2009–2019), 15 months (2022–2023) and 12 months (2023–2025). Also played 8 rapid (including 1er IRT Open Cerinza 2025) and 1 blitz events (including IRT Blitz Duelo Coronas Tegancy Chess) recently. His peak of 2388 was reached at age 33 (Jul 2001, Colombian #5 at the time).

Awarded IM in 2001 (age 33).

Current rating

2129

Standard

Rpd2063·Blz2019

All-time high

2388

−259 pts below
Jul 2001 · age 33

Activity

7

games / yr avg. · ≈1/mo

classical only
Occasional

Signature stat

Top 4%

#67 · Colombian players · of 1,476

Career timeline

17 entries
2025
2nd Colombian 55-60 player
at age 57 · rated 2129
Sep 2025
Inactive for 16 months
paused at 2129 → still inactive
Jan 2025
2023
Inactive for 12 months
paused at 2131 → returned at 2129
Dec 2023
2022
Inactive for 15 months
paused at 2175 → returned at 2172
Jan 2022
2020
2nd Colombian 50-55 player
at age 52 · rated 2242
Sep 2020
2009
Inactive for 122 months
paused at 2263 → returned at 2242
Jul 2009

Standard rating history

Activity & highlights

Evolution
0
2129 → 2129

Last 12 months — tournaments

0 events

Most-Played Opponents

vsJuan Manuel Cadena
🇨🇴COL·2113
+7 −3 =4
14 games·last met Apr 2026
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vsCarlos Arturo Fonseca PintoFM
🇨🇴COL·2023
+1 −4 =5
10 games·last met Apr 2026
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vsCesar Daniel Rativa Jimenez
🇨🇴COL·1909
+7 −2 =1
10 games·last met Jan 2026
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vsCarlos Eduardo Otalora PachecoFM
🇨🇴COL·2203
+3 −4 =2
9 games·last met Jul 2025
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vsAndres Gabriel Perez Valero
🇨🇴COL·1923
+5 −1 =0
6 games·last met Apr 2026
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Rankings

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Colombia
#73
out of 2,941 players
Americas
#1,363
in continent
World
#12,823
out of 400,000+

National ranking

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