César Muñoz

César Muñoz Vicuña (1929–2000) was an Ecuadorian chess master. An amateur, he was an engineer by profession.[1][2]

He played for Ecuador at first board in the fourth World Student Team Chess Championship at Reykjavík 1957 (+3 –6 =4), where he beat Grandmaster Fridrik Olafsson, and in the 14th Chess Olympiad at Leipzig 1960 (+9 –3 =7). The unknown Ecuadorian caused a sensation in the preliminaries of the Leipzig Olympiad when he beat Bobby Fischer.[3]

In 1962, he took second place, behind Olavo Yépez, in Pichincha (ECU-ch); and took seventh place at Quito 1969 (zonal; Eleazar Jiménez and Olavo Yépez Obando won).[4]

For a number of years he was chair of the Ecuadorean Sports Association, and the Complejo Deportivo César Muñoz Vicuña was named after him.

Notable chess games

References
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  2. "Short biography by Tim Krabbé (Dutch)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  3. "OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess". Archived from the original on 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  4. Chessmetrics website Archived April 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine


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