Guillermo García González


Guillermo García González, Bochum 1981
Association	Cuba Cuba
Born	December 9, 1953 Santa Clara , Cuba
Died	October 26, 1990 near Havana
title	International Master (1974) Grand Master (1976)
Best Elo rating	2535 (January 1978)

Guillermo García González (born December 9, 1953 in Santa Clara (Cuba) , † October 26, 1990 near Havana ) was a Cuban chess master .

Life

Guillermo García González and Yuri Balashov , 1979 interzonal tournament in Rio

García learned the rules of chess when he was six. As a teenager he became one of the leading players in Cuba. In 1973 he won the Cuban Youth Championship with 11 points from 11 games.

In 1974 he became International Master and 1976 Grand Master .

After he finished thirteenth at the Rio de Janeiro interzonal tournament in 1979 in Rio de Janeiro , he barely missed qualifying for the Candidates Tournament in 1982 at the interzonal tournament in Moscow .

Until his death in a car accident, he was considered one of the leading Cuban chess players.

His Elo rating at this point was 2495, making him number four in Cuba.

National team

García took part with the Cuban national team from 1974 to 1988 in all seven Chess Olympiads in which Cuba played (the 1976 Chess Olympiad was boycotted by Cuba). He also played in the team's World Cup in 1989 in Lucerne and in the Pan-American Team Championship 1987 in Junín . He won this with the Cuban team and at the same time achieved the best individual result on the third board.

Individual evidence

^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 76.

↑ Guillermo García González 'results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)

↑ Guillermo García González 'results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)

↑ Guillermo García González 'results at the Pan-American team championships on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

Commons : Guillermo García González - Collection of Images

Portrait of Guillermo García González at the Cuban Chess Federation ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Spanish)
Guillermo García González in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)

personal data
SURNAME	García González, Guillermo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Garcia Gonzales, Guillermo (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cuban chess player
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santa Clara (Cuba)
DATE OF DEATH	October 26, 1990
Place of death	near Havana

[1] Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 76.

[2] Guillermo García González 'results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)