Francisco José Pérez Pérez (8 September 1920 – 11 September 1999) was a Spanish

Spain

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/Cuba

Cuba

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Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 player.
Born in Vigo, Spain, he won the Spanish Chess Championship

Spanish Chess Championship

The Spanish Chess Championship is contested annually under the auspices of the Federación Española de Ajedrez , the governing body of chess in Spain, to determine the nation's chess champion. The first official championship was in 1928.-Winners:...

 in 1948, 1954, and 1960.
He played for Spain in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s of 1958 and 1960 and in the 1961 European Team Championship

European Team Championship

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He shared first place at Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

 1959.
FIDE awarded him the International Master (IM) title in 1959.
After emigrating to Cuba he played second board on the Cuban team in the 1964 Olympiad.

External links

• FRANCISCO JOSE PEREZ PEREZ at www.bidmonfa.com