Francisco Planas Garcia (born 6 April 1908 - 1990) was a Cuban chess player. [1] He was the winner of the Cuban Chess Championship in 1927 and 1929. [2] [3] Planas was born in Matanzas, Cuba. [1]
Lázaro Bruzón Batista is a Cuban-American chess grandmaster. He is a former World Junior Champion, two-times American Continental champion, two-time Iberoamerican champion and five-time Cuban champion.
Cañada de Calatrava is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The municipality borders Ciudad Real and Villar del Pozo to the east, Caracuel de Calatrava and Corral de Calatrava to the west, and Argamasilla de Calatrava to the south. It has an area of 29.9 km² with a population of 92 inhabitants and a density of 3.68/km².
Manuel Golmayo y de la Torriente was a Cuban-Spanish chess master.
In the second part of the 19th century, Celso Golmayo Zúpide had been generally accepted as Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre. In 1912–1937 Cuban Championship as Copa Dewar occurred. Maria Teresa Mora was the first woman who won Copa Dewar in 1922.
Naturally, chess is a hobby, but it is also a teacher of reason, and the countries that have good chess teams also lead the world in other more important spheres.
Zhao Zong-Yuan is an Australian chess Grandmaster. As of September 2019, he was the third-ranked active chess player in Australia.
Francisco José Pérez Pérez was a Spanish/Cuban chess player. Born in Vigo, Spain, he won the Spanish Chess Championship in 1948, 1954, and 1960. He played for Spain in the Chess Olympiads of 1958 and 1960 and in the 1961 European Team Chess Championship.
The Panamanian Chess Championship is the individual national chess championship of Panama. The first edition was played in 1945 and won by Rubén Darío Cabrera. It was originally a biennial event, and from 1945 to 1961 six championships were played, and from 1962 to 1971 eight championships. From 1972 to 1976, it was held annually, but the tournament of 1977 never finished because the beginning of a long schism in Panamanian chess. From 1978 to 1988, it was again held annually.
Rolando Illa was a Cuban–Argentine chess master.
Yu Yangyi is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He qualified for the Grandmaster title at 14 years, 11 months and 23 days old in 2009. He is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion and the 2014 Asian Chess Champion.
Deysi Estela Cori Tello is a Peruvian chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and a three-time American Continental women's champion. At junior level, she was twice world champion and six-time Pan American champion in her age girls category. Cori is the top ranked female player of Peru and has played for the national team of her country in the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2004. She competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013 and 2015, and in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017.
Yuniesky Quesada Pérez is a Cuban-American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2005. Quesada is the fourth Cuban to surpass the 2600 Elo rating mark, which he did on the FIDE list of July 2010. He won the Cuban Chess Championship in 2008 and 2011.
Maritza Arribas Robaina is a Cuban chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. She won the Cuban women's chess championship eleven times.
The chess championship of El Salvador is organized by the Salvadoran Chess Federation, and was first held in 1946. FIDE Master Boris Pineda has won the title a record eight times. A separate Salvadoran Women's Chess Championship has also been held annually since 1993.
The Honduran Chess Championship is organized by FENAH, the chess federation of Honduras, which was founded in 1993.
Federico Perez Ponsa is a chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2011.
Baire Benítez was a Cuban chess player. He won the Cuban Chess Championship in 1921.
José Fernández Migoya was a Cuban chess player. He was the winner of the Cuban Chess Championship in 1923. The national chess tournament Migoya In Memoriam, is named after him. Migoya was born in 1900 in Pinar del Río and died on 11 July 1968 in Camagüey, Cuba.
The Nicaraguan Chess Championship is currently organized by Fenanic, the national chess federation of Nicaragua. After the first championship was held as a match in 1956, subsequent editions have been held as tournaments in multiple categories, with the winner of the top category becoming the national champion.
The Pan American Team Chess Championship is an international team chess tournament open to national federations affiliated to FIDE in the Americas. It is organized by the Confederation of Chess for America (CCA), and the winner qualifies to participate at the next World Team Chess Championship.
Gabriela Vargas Talavera is a Paraguayan chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE in 2019.