Luis Augusto Sánchez a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n 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 six-times Colombian Champion (1938, 1947, 1948, 1954, 1958, and 1962).

In 1951, he won in Caracas (zonal). In 1952, he took 17th in Stockholm (interzonal; Alexander Kotov

Alexander Kotov

Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific chess author. Kotov served in high posts in the Soviet Chess Federation and most of his books were written during the period of Cold War between the...

 won). In 1957, he took 3rd in Caracas (zonal; Boris De Greiff

Boris de Greiff

Boris de Greiff Bernal was a Colombian chess master and writer, born in Medellín and son of the Colombian poet León de Greiff....

 won). In 1958, he took 8th in Bogotá (1st Torneo de las Americas; Oscar Panno

Oscar Panno

Oscar R. Panno is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.Panno won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, and also won the championship of Argentina the same year....

 won). In 1959, he tied for 4-6th with Raúl Sanguineti and Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer was an American chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author...

 in Santiago de Chile. The event was won by 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 Ludek 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...

. In 1969, he tied for 4-5th in Quito (zonal; Eleazar Jiménez

Eleazar Jiménez

Eleazar Jiménez Zerquera was a Cuban chess master.Jiménez won the Cuban Championship five times, in 1957, 1960, 1963, 1965, and 1967. He won the Pan American Chess Championship three times, in 1963, 1966 and 1970....

 and Olavo Yépez

Olavo Yépez

Olavo Yépez Obando is an Ecuadorian chess master.He won Ecuadorian Chess Championship at Pichincha 1962, took 9th at Mar del Plata 1962 , tied for 3rd-6th at Havana 1966 , played at Caracas 1967 , took 2nd, behind...

 won).

Sánchez played for Colombia in four Chess Olympiads.

• In 1954, at third board in 11th Chess Olympiad
  11th Chess Olympiad
  The 11th 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 September 4 and September 25, 1954, in Amsterdam, Netherlands...
  
   in Amsterdam (+5 –4 =9);
• In 1956, at second board in 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 (+7 –2 =10);
• In 1958, at second board in 13th Chess Olympiad
  13th Chess Olympiad
  The 13th 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 September 30 and October 23, 1958, in Munich, West Germany.-References:...
  
   in Munich (+4 –5 =10);
• In 1966, at first reserve board in 17th Chess Olympiad
  17th Chess Olympiad
  The 17th 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 October 23 and November 20, 1966, in Havana, Cuba.-References:* OlimpBase...
  
   in Havana (+7 –3 =5).

Awarded the IM title in 1951.

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