Rogelio Ortega

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Rogelio Ortega (born March 28, 1915 in Havana , † in the 1980s after 1983) was a Cuban chess player.

Career

In August 1959 he finished with 8.5 points from 12 rounds a good 6th to 13th place at the US Open in Omaha (Nebraska), won by Arthur Bisguier with 10 points . In 1966 he won the Cuban championship. In 1969 he was behind Jesús Rodríguez together with Silvino García shared second in the Cuban championship.

In the 1960s he took part in important tournaments in South America and several tournaments in Eastern Europe. He played in Havana at the Capablanca memorial tournaments in 1962, 1963 and 1964 and the Pan American championship in 1966 as well as at the Akiba-Rubinstein memorial tournaments in Polanica-Zdrój in 1965 and 1967 and at the Emanuel-Lasker memorial tournament in 1968 in East Berlin . Although he was only 15th out of 16 participants in Polanica-Zdrój in 1967, Ortega won against the tournament winner Semjon Abramowitsch Furman and against Wolfgang Uhlmann , who was second together with Vlastimil Hort .

Ortega was a member of the Cuban team at the Chess Olympiads in Helsinki in 1952 , in Varna in 1962 , in Tel Aviv in 1964 , in Havana in 1966 and in Lugano in 1968 .

Ortegas had his best Elo rating of 2330 in the rating lists from July 1973 to January 1975. His best historical rating before the introduction of the Elo ratings was 2472 in October 1970 when he was 302nd in the retrospectively calculated world rankings.

In a simultaneous performance that Ortega gave in the early 1960s, the revolutionary leader and industry minister Che Guevara managed a quick victory in 22 moves against Ortega.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.vanguardia.co.cu/foros/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=47872 (page no longer available)
  2. ↑ http://www.nibaldocalvo.com/2010/05/gm-david-navara-no-dio-chances.html
  3. ^ Profile on chessgames.com , accessed April 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ http://chesscom-chesscoach.blogspot.com/2009/05/hace-40-anos-las-recomendaciones-del-gm.html
  6. ↑ Rogelio Ortega's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Petronio Perez: Desmepolvando al Che Ajedrecista , (February 2008, Spanish)

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SURNAME Ortega, Rogelio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH between 1984 and 1990
Place of death Havana , Cuba