From the 1940s to the 1960s Gilberto Garcia was one of the leading Cuban chess players. In 1947, he won the International Chess Tournament City of Havana ahead of Donald Byrne and Edward Lasker.
Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud.
García became Colombia's second Grandmaster in 1992. [1 ] [2 ] His highest rating was 2540 (in July 1994) and he was ranked 14th in Colombia at the time of his death. [3 ]
You wouldn't think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and extend their arms only from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic phenomenon gripping chess.
Eduardo Iturrizaga and Marta García won the 2022 Spanish Championships. The event was a 9-round Swiss open played on August 11-19 at the RL Aníbal Hotel in Linares, Andalusia. Iturrizaga, who transferred to Spain only last year, won his…
This thorough work on how Nimzowitsch's theories have been refined and synthesized with classical concepts into the modern dynamic understanding of chess will h...