| Lázaro Bruzón | |
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Lázaro Bruzón at the 2005 Corus chess tournament |
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| Full name | Lázaro Bruzón Batista |
| Country | Cuba |
| Born | 2 May 1982 Havana, Cuba |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2682 (No. 62 in the September 2011 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2693 (May 2011) |
Lázaro Bruzón Batista (born 2 May 1982) is a chess grandmaster from Cuba. On the January 2011 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2686. Bruzón was the 2000 World Junior Chess Champion. In 2004 he finished first at the XII Torneo "Guillermo Garcia" in Memoriam in Villa Clara.[1] In 2005 he won the American Continental Championship[2] and tied for 2nd-5th with Kamil Mitoń, Zhang Pengxiang and Artyom Timofeev in the Samba Cup in Skanderborg.[3] In 2008 he came first in the 35th open tournament in Manresa.[4] In 2010 he tied for 1st-6th with Kamil Mitoń, Bojan Kurajica, Yuri Gonzalez Vidal, Evgeny Gleizerov and Bartlomiej Heberla in the 4th Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de La Laguna[5] and tied for 1st-2nd with Ivan Salgado Lopez at Barcelona.[6]