Chess career

He won twice Uruguayan Chess Championship

Uruguayan Chess Championship

The Uruguayan Chess Championship is the national chess championship of Uruguay.-References:*...

 in 1948 and 1971 and played for Uruguay 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 1939, 1964 and 1966.

"The Uruguayan Immortal"

In the Uruguay Championship of 1943, Roux Cabral defeated Molinari with a brilliant sacrificial

Sacrifice (chess)

In chess, a sacrifice is a move giving up a piece in the hopes of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms. A sacrifice could also be a deliberate exchange of a chess piece of higher value for an opponent's piece of lower value....

 attack; the combination is known as "The Uruguayan Immortal

Uruguayan Immortal

The Uruguayan Immortal is the name given to a game of chess played in the 1943 Uruguayan Chess Championship between B Molinari and Luis Roux Cabral. The game is famous for the brilliant combination play of Cabral, who was a two-time Uruguayan champion...

". Fred Reinfeld

Fred Reinfeld

Fred Reinfeld was an American chess master and a prolific writer on chess and many other subjects, whose books are still read today.-Biography:...

annotated the game on pages 11-12 of the Chess Correspondent, May-June 1944. His final remark was: "A game destined for immortality."