Ramón Rey Ardid was a Spanish chess

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...

 master. He was Spanish champion

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:...

 from 1929 to 1943.

He was a psychiatrist and professor at the Zaragoza University. In 1924, he played for Spain in first unofficial 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...

 in Paris (+4 –5 =4) where took team 10th place and shared 21st in Consolation Cup (B tournament, Karel Hromádka

Karel Hromádka

Karel Hromádka was a Czech chess player, two-time Czech champion, 1913 and 1921 ....

 won). In 1928, he won the pre-Olympic tournament in Madrid, but later resigned from participation in the 2nd Olympiad at The Hague.

In 1929, he tied for 4-5th in Barcelona (José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play...

 won) and took his first Spanish Champion title. In 1929 he won a match for the Spanish title against Manuel Golmayo (+4 –1 =2). He defended the title, winning matches: against R. Casas (+5 –1 =0) in 1933, Vicente Almirali Castall (+5 –0 =2) in 1935, Juan Manuel Fuentes (+5 –1 =1) in 1942, and lost the title to José Sanz (+3 –4 =3) in 1943.

In tournaments and matches, he took 2nd, behind Andor Lilienthal

Andor Lilienthal

Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...

, at Sitges 1934; won a match against Victor Kahn

Victor Kahn

Victor Kahn was a Russian–French chess master.He was born in Moscow but left Russia in 1912 eventually ending up in France going via Sweden, Denmark and Germany. He won the Copenhagen Championship in 1916. He also played at Hamburg 1916....

 (+2 –0 =4) at Zaragoza 1935; shared 1st in Hastings 1935/36 (B tournament).

In 1944, Rey Ardid lost a match to Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

 (+0 –1 =3) and won against Francisco Lupi

Francisco Lupi

Francisco Lupi was a Portuguese chess master.In January 1940, he lost a game to Alexander Alekhine in Estoril . In February 1940, he drew a game with Alekhine in Estoril .Lupi was a noted Portuguese player during World War II...

(+5 –1 =0), both in Zaragoza. He won at Madrid 1946 (Casa de Alba).