Three Holguineros achieved victories in the fifth round of the Open group. Of the Capablanca in Memoriam International Chess Tournament that is taking place in Varadero, Matanzas.
International Master (IM) Ríder Díaz overcame his counterpart Joshua Johnson (Trinidad and Tobago). He was imitated by young David Alejandro Calzadilla and Yadel Alejandro Acosta. Who beat Edgar Joel Alcantar (Mexico) and Cuban Juan Pablo Delgado, respectively.
The performance of the athletes from our province was completed with the draw of Grand Master (GM) Reinier Vazquez against Mexican IM Luis Carlos Torres. A date in which the first two in the ranking. Canadian Alexandre Lesiege and Azeri Azer Mirzoev, made peace and were left with 4.5 points.
After these results Ríder is placed 25th with 3.5 units, Reinier (35th with 3.0). David Alejandro (42nd, 3.0) and Yadel Alejandro (82nd, 2.0). In the veterans’ tournament. Jesús Grimal (Holguin) lost against Ramón Joaquín León and dropped to 16th place with 2.0 points.
For his part Patrick Randy Macfarlane, who is taking part in the Central American U-20 event. Defeated Brayan Tapanes in the fourth round and succumbed in the fifth to Edrwis Anthuan Espinosa, both Cuban players, to be with 2.5 units in 21st place.
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José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (Havana, November 19th, 1888 – New York, March 8th, 1942) was a Cuban chess player, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. Because of his precocious genius, he was nicknamed “The Mozart of Chess”; because of his aura of invincibility, in his golden age he was called “the chess machine”.
Capablanca, Ramon Fonst and Alfredo de Oro are the three most important figures of the Cuban sports world in the first decades of the 20th century. When they were called “the Cuban golden triad”, since each one was the maximum exponent in his sport.
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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