Chess in Las Tunas, Cuba

De la Paz and Almeida Lead Chess Championship in Las Tunas, Cuba
Submitted by nesy on Fri, 2009-01-09 01:15

The Grand Master (GM) Frank de la Paz and Omar Almeida lead with perfect performance the Men’s National Chess Championship, after the first two rounds in this eastern province of Las Tunas.

De la Paz got the victory in the second round before the Intenational Master (IM) Maikel Gongora, of Las Tunas, while Almeida also won with black pieces before the GM of Guantanamo, Juan Borges.

In other results the FIDE Master (FM) of Las Tunas, Humberto Blanco, achieved his first victory in the tournament when defeating with black to the IM of Holguin, Isam Ortiz; as long as the other representative of Las Tunas, the IM Humberto Pecorelli, got the point in front of the FM Carlos Castellano, of Matanzas.

On the other hand, the GM Yury Gonzalez defeated the FM Leonel Figueredo. Alejandro Valdes played bettter than the IM Aramis Alvarez while the FM Carlos Mena beat the IM Camilo Gomez and Pedro Jimenez defeated Leandro Guerra.

The other eight matches concluded in ties, included those of the FM Pedro Morales in front of the GM of Holguin Walter Arencibia who has not begun well in the tournament.

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