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Juan González de Vega

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Juan González de Vega
CountryCuba
Born(1917-07-15)15 July 1917
Diedunknown

Juan González de Vega (15 July 1917 — 1990) was a Cuban chess player and Cuban Chess Championship four-times winner (1942, 1943, 1951, 1952).

Biography

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From the early 1940s to the early 1960s Juan González de Vega was one of the leading Cuban chess players. He four times won the Cuban Chess Championship: 1942, 1943, 1951, and 1952. In 1946, in Manhattan Chess Club he won the U.S. Blitz Chess Championship.

Juan González de Vega played for Cuba in the Chess Olympiad:[1]

In 1962, in Havana he participated in 1st Capablanca Memorial.

In 1963s Juan González de Vega emigrated to the United States and worked as surgery doctor at Manhattan's West Side Hospital.

References

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  1. ^ "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Juan González de Vega". www.olimpbase.org.
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