Jordi Magem Badals [SEP] place of birth
Jordi Magem Badals
Jordi Magem Badals (born August 24, 1967 in Barcelona) is a Catalan chess Grandmaster.
Chess Career.
In 1981 Magem Badals won the Catalan Junior Chess Championship. In 1983, he won the Catalan and Spanish youth chess championships.
Magem Badals won the Spanish Chess Championship in 1990, ahead of IM Marcelino Sion Castro. He has been runner-up on three other occasions, in 1986 behind Ángel Martín González, in 1993 behind Lluis Comas Fabregó and in 1997 behind Pablo San Segundo
in round 1 by Jordi Magem Badals from Spain.
Feldman represented Australia in the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, China. He played for team Canberra in the 2012 World Cities Chess Championship in Al Ain, UAE.
Feldman has a master's degree in Chess Coaching from the State Institute of Physical Culture, Moscow, and is the co-owner of "Chess Masters", a chess coaching business in Sydney, with his wife, IM Irina Berezina. In 2005, he was awarded the FIDE Trainer