Rodrigo Flores Álvarez was a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an engineer and 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.

Chess

Flores was Chilean Champion eleven times: 1931, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1961, and 1965.

He tied for 7-8th with Jácobo Bolbochán

Jacobo Bolbochán

Jacobo Bolbochán was an Argentine chess master.He played many times in the Argentine Chess Championships. He won twice , both ahead of Isaias Pleci. In 1933, he took 2nd, behind Luis Piazzini. In 1935, he took 2nd, behind Roberto Grau. In 1936, he took 3rd, behind Carlos Guimard and Grau...

 at Mar del Plata 1936 (Isaías Pléci

Isaias Pleci

Isaías Pléci was an Argentine chess master.-Chess tournaments:Pléci was the Argentine Champion in 1929 to 1930. He won at Buenos Aires 1928 and lost a match for the title to Roberto Grau . later, he won in 1929 and won a match against Grau in 1930...

 won). In 1937, he won, ahead of René Letelier

René Letelier

René Letelier Martner was a Chilean chess player with the title of International Master.-Biography:...

, in São Paulo (South American Chess Championship

South American Chess Championship

The first South American Chess Championship was held in Montevideo , Uruguay, on December 25, 1921 – January 22, 1922...

, Torneio Sulamericano). He took 8th in the Montevideo 1938 chess tournament

Montevideo 1938 chess tournament

The eighth South American Chess Championship took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 7th to 25th of March 1938. The event was held in an elegant seaside resort Carrasco, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Montevideo, located on the city's southeast coast.The results and standings:...

 (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...

 won).

Rodrigo Flores played for Chile in three 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.

• In 1939, at second board in the 8th Chess Olympiad
  8th Chess Olympiad
  The 8th Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs , comprised an 'open' tournament, as well as a Women's World Championship contest...
  
   in Buenos Aires (+4 –5 =9); His victory over Moshe Czerniak
  Moshe Czerniak
  -Biography:In 1930 Moshe Czerniak took ninth at Warsaw in an event won by Paulino Frydman. In 1934 Czerniak emigrated from Poland to Palestine . In April 1935, he tied for 7th–8th in Tel Aviv . He was Palestinian Champion in 1936 and 1938. In April 1939, he played in the First Lasker Chess Club...
  
  http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1485727 was praised by both Capablanca and 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...
  
  , as well as his opponent.
• In 1950, at second board in the 9th Chess Olympiad
  9th Chess Olympiad
  The 9th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between August 20 and September 11, 1950, in Dubrovnik, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia .The final results were as follows:-Final :The...
  
   in Dubrovnik (+6 –3 =6);
• In 1956, at first board in the 12th Chess Olympiad
  12th Chess Olympiad
  The 12th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between August 31 and September 25, 1956, in Moscow, Soviet Union.-References:...
  
   in Moscow (+2 –6 =9).

In 1949, he tied for 6-9th in Mar del Plata (Hector Rossetto

Héctor Rossetto

Héctor Decio Rossetto was one of the best chess players in Argentine history.He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and the Grandmaster title in 1960....

 won). In 1951, he took 4th in Mar del Plata / Buenos Aires (zt; Erich Eliskases

Erich Eliskases

Erich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition....

 and Julio Bolbochán

Julio Bolbochan

Julio Bolbochán was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948.Born in Buenos Aires, he represented Argentina in seven Chess Olympiads from 1950 to 1970....

 won). In 1959, he tied for 7-8th in Santiago (Borislav Ivkov

Borislav Ivkov

Borislav Ivkov is a Serbian chess Grandmaster. He was the first ever World Junior Champion in 1951. He won the Yugoslav Championship in 1958 , 1963 and 1972. He was a World championship candidate in 1965, and played in four more Interzonal tournaments, in 1967, 1970, 1973, and 1979...

 and Luděk Pachman

Ludek Pachman

Luděk Pachman was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to emigrate to West Germany...

 won). In 1960, he tied for 3rd-5th in São Paulo (zt; Bolbochán won). In 1961, he took 2nd, behind Eugenio German

Eugênio German

Eugênio Maciel German was a Brazilian chess master.In 1949, Eugênio German won a match against Jayme Schreibman Moses in Belo Horizonte . In 1949, he tied for 3rd-4th in Rio de Janeiro. In 1950, he tied for 5-6th in Rio de Janeiro...

, in São Paulo (zt; playoff). In 1962, he took 2nd in Mar del Plata (Raimundo Garcia

Raimundo Garcia

Raimundo Garcia is an Argentine chess master.At the beginning of his career, he took 7th at Santa Fe 1956...

 won).

Engineering

Rodrigo Flores was a civil engineer

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

. He entered the Chilean Academy of Sciences in 1970. In 1993, he won the national prize offered by Colegio de Ingenieros de Chile.

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