Oscar Quiñones Carrillo

Quiñones against Vasily Smyslow at the Amsterdam Interzonal 1964
Association	Peru
Born	January 14, 1941 Lima , Peru
title	International champion (1963)
Current  Elo rating	2345 (May 2020)
Best Elo rating	2360 January 1977 Historic Rating : 2471 November 1964
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Oscar Quiñones Carrillo (born January 14, 1941 in Lima ) is a Peruvian chess player and teacher.

Life

Oscar Quiñones Carrillo worked in a bank and played chess as a hobby , although he was the best chess player in his country for a period in the early 1960s. He now teaches chess at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ( Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú ) in Lima and is the trainer of the university team.

successes

Oscar Quiñones was able to win the Peruvian individual championship five times: 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966. In 1963 he was tied for third in the zone tournament in Mar del Plata . In the same year he was named International Master . In 1964 he won the zone playoff in Rio de Janeiro , which he qualified for the interzonal tournament Amsterdam 1964 , in which he was 20th out of 24 participants. For the Peruvian national team he took part in three chess Olympiads ( 1964 in Tel Aviv on board 1, 1970 in victories on board 3 and 1972 in Skopje on board 2) with a positive overall result of 26.5 points from 52 games (+18 = 17 −17).

Quiñones Carrillo is inactive because he has not played an Elo rated game since the 3rd Grand Prix in Chiclayo in August 2004 .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Oscar Quiñones Carrillo on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oscar Quiñones Carillo on chessmetrics.com (English)
2. ^ Page of the Catholic University of Lima ( Memento of November 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
3. ↑ The Masters comment ( Memento of March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
4. ↑ Oscar Quiñones Carrillos results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)