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.
Osvaldo Ronald Zambrana Enríquez is a Bolivian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007 and he is the only Bolivian to achieve so.
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.
Simón José Rubinstein was an Argentine chess master.
Eduardo Patricio Iturrizaga Bonelli is a Venezuelan-born Spanish chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2008, making him the first Venezuelan to achieve this. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009, 2013, and 2015. He is a four-time Venezuelan champion and has represented his country at eight Chess Olympiads.
Jorge Moisés Cori Tello is a Peruvian chess grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, he was twice world champion and four-time Pan American champion in his age category. Cori competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019 and 2021. He has played for the Peruvian team in the Chess Olympiad since 2010.
Danitza Fernanda Vázquez Maccarini is a chess player from Puerto Rico. After winning the Central American and Caribbean U20 Girls Championship in El Salvador in 2013, she was awarded by FIDE the title Woman International Master (WIM), becoming the youngest one in the world at the time. In 2015, at 15, she became the youngest ever to win the chess championship of Puerto Rico; Vázquez finished first scoring 8/9 points, a full point ahead of the runner-up, International Master Alejandro Montalvo. She won the bronze medal in the Girls U18 division of the World Youth Chess Championships in 2017. In November of the same year, Vázquez won the Women's Zonal 2.3 Championship on tie-break from Maritza Arribas Robaina and Yerisbel Miranda Llanes. As a result, Vázquez qualified to play in the Women's World Chess Championship.
Diego Flores is an Argentine chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2008. He is a five-time Argentine Chess Champion.
David Antón Guijarro is a Spanish chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2013, at the age of 18. He has competed at two Chess Olympiads.
The national chess championship of Mexico has been organized annually since 1973 by FENAMAC, the Mexican chess federation. Known since 1997 as the National Absolute Championship and previously as the National Closed Championship, it was initially organized as a round-robin tournament. However, several editions in the 1990s were organized as a series of elimination matches, and the championship is currently run as a Swiss-system tournament. In some years it serves as a qualifying stage for the FIDE World Chess Championship and is designated as sub-Zonal tournament 2.3.1 in such cases. A different tournament is the Mexican Open Championship, which is not limited to Mexican nationals and has been held annually since 1954.
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 Bolivian Chess Championship is organized by the Bolivian Chess Federation.
Federico Perez Ponsa is a chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2011.
Joshua Daniel Ruiz Castillo is a Colombian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019.
Román Torán Albero was a Spanish chess player. He received the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) in 1954 and International Arbiter in 1957. He was FIDE Vice President (1982—1990) and a two-time Spanish Chess Championship winner.
Deivy Anthony Vera Sigueñas is a Peruvian chess grandmaster (2020).
Carlos Armando Juárez Flores is a Guatemalan chess International Master (IM) since 1987 and a FIDE master (FM) since 1983, and his highest rating was 2435. He is ranked best player in Guatemala.
Gildardo García was a Colombian chess player.
Silvia Carolina Mazariegos is a Guatemalan Woman International Master (WIM) since 1987. Her higheat rating was 2135 and she is ranked as Guatemala's 2nd best female player.
