Walter Arencibia

Walter Arencibia, Recklinghausen 1998

Walter Arencibia Rodríguez (born July 21, 1967 in Holguín ) is a Cuban chess master .

Walter Arencibia learned chess when he was eight and made rapid progress. He won the Cuban Youth Championship in 1985 and was World Youth Champion in Gausdal in 1986 . He was Cuban national champion in the same year. In the course of 1990 Arencibia improved his Elo rating by 130 points to 2550: He again won the Cuban championship that year, the Capablanca Memorial in Havana and qualified through the zone tournament for the interzonal tournament in Manila . For these achievements, FIDE awarded him the title of Grand Master . Arencibia also took part in the 1993 interzonal tournament in Biel . From 1986 in Dubai to 2006 in Turin , he represented Cuba at nine Chess Olympiads . In addition, Arencibia took part in the team world championships in 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005, where he achieved the third-best result of the reserve players in Be'er Scheva in 2005 and won the Pan-American team championships with the Cuban team in 1987 in Junín , 1991 in Guarapuava , 1995 in Cascavel , 2000 in Mérida (Venezuela) and 2003 in Rio de Janeiro .

In the Spanish team championship he played for CE Terrassa in 1997 and 1998 .

The highest he reached Elo rating was 2573 in January of 2008.

Web links

Commons : Walter Arencibia - Collection of Images

Walter Arencibia at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
Replayable chess games by Walter Arencibia on chessgames.com (English)
Walter Arencibia Rodríguez in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)

personal data
SURNAME	Arencibia, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arencibia Rodríguez, Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cuban chess master
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Holguín , Cuba