Lázaro Bruzón

Lázaro Bruzón in Wijk aan Zee 2012
Association	Cuba (until 2020) United States (since 2020)
Born	May 2, 1982 Holguín , Cuba
title	Grandmaster (1999)
Current  Elo rating	2644 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2717 (October 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Lázaro Bruzón Batista (born May 2, 1982 in Holguín / Cuba ) is a Cuban chess master who has been eligible to play for the United States Chess Federation since 2020 .

Life

Bruzón, who moved from his native Holguín to Las Tunas in 1988 and where he still lives today, received early support. Since 1991, after his talent was recognized, he had various coaches and sponsors. As a teenager he won a number of Cuban youth championships in different age categories, with the only competitor in his contemporaries Leinier Domínguez , another great Cuban talent. As early as 1997 he took part in the Cuban adult championship, but paid tuition and was penultimate. In 1999, after a series of good tournaments, he was named International Master by the World Chess Federation and shortly afterwards Grand Master .

In 2000 Bruzón made his breakthrough: he was junior world champion in Yerevan . He celebrated another great success in 2001 in Lausanne when he won the young champions' tournament (based on the knockout system ) in front of players like Étienne Bacrot , Ruslan Ponomarjow and Pentala Harikrishna . In 2002 he won the traditional Capablanca Memorial in Havana and the strong tournament in Esbjerg , the latter together with his compatriot Leinier Domínguez .

In 2004 he won the B tournament in Wijk aan Zee and thus qualified for the top-class A tournament of the following year. In the same year he won in Santa Clara and represented Cuba at the Chess Olympiad in Calvià with the excellent result +6 = 4 −1, where he defeated Ponomarjow. Bruzón won the Cuban championship in January 2005, which was first organized in the knockout system, by beating Leinier Domínguez in the final. In August of the same year he celebrated the biggest victory in his career so far when he won the American Continental Championship in Buenos Aires (ahead of Gata Kamsky , among others ) with 8.5 / 11. In the same year he also came second in Skanderborg and won the Torre Memorial in Mérida (Mexico) . In April 2006 Bruzón could not defend his title at the Cuban championship, he was defeated in the final Domínguez with 3.5: 4.5. In November of the same year Bruzón won the first championship of the Ibero-American countries in Ayamonte with a 1.5: 0.5 final victory (the tournament was decided in knockout mode) over the Spaniard Manuel Pérez . In February 2007 he was again Cuban champions with a 4.5: 3.5 victory after a playoff against Domínguez.

After good games he won the strong Zeeland Open 2008 in Vlissingen (NL) in August with 7.5 points from 9 rounds (without defeat).

Bruzón qualified six times for the World Chess Cup . When he first participated in 2005 he reached the third round, in 2007 and 2009 he failed in the first round. Bruzón was most successful in 2011 when he reached the round of 16, while he failed in the second round in 2013 and 2015 .

Team chess

Bruzón has been a member of the Cuban national team since 2000. He has since been at all eight Chess Olympiads , at the World Team Championship competition in 2005 and on all four Pan-American Team Championships, where he this competition in 2000 in Mérida (Venezuela) and 2003 in Rio de Janeiro won with the Cuban team.

In the Spanish team championship , Bruzón played for CA Intel-Tiendas UPI Mancha Real in 2006 , for CE Barberá in 2010 and for CA Equigoma-Casa Social Católica in 2013 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 112.
2. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 85.
3. ↑ Lázaro Bruzón's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Lázaro Bruzón's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Lázaro Bruzón's results at the Pan-American team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Lázaro Bruzón's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

Commons : Lázaro Bruzón  - collection of images

• Lázaro Bruzón at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Portrait ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Spanish)