Miguel Cuéllar

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Miguel Cuéllar Gacharná (18 November 1916 – 5 December 1985)[1] was a Colombian chess master.

Cuellar won the Colombian championship eight times: in 1946, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, and 1971. He played for Colombia in six Chess Olympiads: 1954, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1970, and 1972. He won individual silver medal at first board (+12 –2 =4) in the 16th Olympiad at Tel Aviv 1964.[2]

In 1952, he tied for 3rd-4th in Mar del Plata (Julio Bolbochán and Héctor Rossetto won). In 1953, he took 5th in Mar del Plata (Svetozar Gligorić won). In 1957, he took 7th in Mar del Plata (Paul Keres won). In 1958, he tied for 2nd-3rd with William Lombardy, behind Oscar Panno, in Bogota.

In 1961, Cuellar won in Caracas (zonal). In 1962, he placed 22nd at the Stockholm Interzonal, defeating both Efim Geller and Viktor Korchnoi in individual games.[3] In 1966, he took 7th in Havana (Eleazar Jimenez won). In 1967, he tied for 19-20th in Sousse (interzonal; Bent Larsen won).[3] In 1969, he tied for 1st with Boris De Greiff in Bogota. In 1970, he took 7th in Bogota (Henrique Mecking won). In 1970, he took 14th in Caracas (Lubomir Kavalek won). In 1973, he took 18th in Leningrad (interzonal; Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi won). In 1980, he tied for 4-5th in Bogota (Joaquin Gutierrez won).

He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1957.[1][3][4]

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  1. ^ a b Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 80, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6 
  2. ^ Cuéllar Gacharná, Miguel team chess record at olimpbase.org
  3. ^ a b c Keene, Raymond (1977), “Cuellar, Miguel”, in Golombek, Harry, Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishing, p. 82, ISBN 0-517-53146-1 
  4. ^ Sunnucks, Anne (1970), The Encyclopaedia of Chess, St. Martin's Press, p. 93, LCCN 78-106371 
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