Leontxo Olasagasti García (12.02.1956)

Spanish FIDE Master (1981) and well know chess journalist and lecturer since 1983. Medal of Sporting Merit in 2011.

Columnist at El Pais , Chess correspondent for Radio Nacional, and for 10 year he was editor of Jaque. Chess commentator for many years at Linares, Bilbao, Mexico World Championship 2007 and many more tournaments, and for the Spanish TV (more than a 100 programmes since 1987). He also produced and presented (with Garry Kasparov) “La Pasión del Ajedrez (Chess Passion), a series of 25 videos and 64 magazines, in 1996.

Member of the Chess in Schools FIDE Comission since 2008, specialist on chess and brain aging, he is listed into the FIDE Golden Book since 1999 for “his excellent contribution to the chess promotion all over the world”.