He competed in the
FIDE World Cup in
2005,
2007,
2009,
2013 and
2017. Flores won the
Argentine Chess Championships of 2005, 2009, 2012 2016, and 2017. Flores has played for the Argentine national team in the
Chess Olympiad, the Pan-American Team Chess Championship and the
Mercosur Chess Olympiad. In 2010 he won the 2nd
Magistral Marcel Duchamp round-robin tournament in
Buenos Aires, edging out
Sandro Mareco on tiebreak. In the same year Flores was granted the
Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the top five chess players of the decade in Argentina. In 2011, he tied for 1st–2nd place with
Alexandr Fier in the 2nd Latin American Cup in
Montevideo, finishing second on tiebreak. The following year Flores tied for first place in the
American Continental Championship, held in
Mar del Plata, with
Julio Granda Zuñiga,
Alexander Shabalov,
Gregory Kaidanov and
Eric Hansen. He is also the chess columnist in
Junín's daily
Diario Democracia since 2004. ==References==