Walter Arencibia is a Cuban

Cubans

Cubans or Cuban people are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...

 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...

 grandmaster. He learned chess at the age of eight and has won various tournaments, including the 1986 World Junior Chess Championship

World Junior Chess Championship

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, for which he automatically gained the International Master title. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1990. Other tournament victories include the Cuban Youth Championships in 1985, and equal first in the Canadian Open Chess Championship

Canadian Open Chess Championship

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 in 2006. He has also represented Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

 at many Chess Olympiads from 1986 to 2006. His current FIDE rating is 2516 which places him tenth in Cuba and 653rd in the world.

External links

• GM Walter Arencibia - Official website
• http://chess.ca/crosstable?tournament_check_number=201107023&key=d550216af6333c3ef7ccded988557b49