Miguel Quinteros

Miguel Ángel Quinteros ( born December 28, 1947 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine chess master.

Miguel Quinteros playing chess since he was seven years old. He won his first major title in 1966, when he was Argentine National Champion (this he could repeat in 1980 ). 1970 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master in 1973 the Grand Master title. He was in the 1970s and 1980s, one of the leading players in Argentina. Four times he participated in Interzone tournaments: 1973 in Leningrad, 1976 in Manila, in 1982 in Moscow and 1985 in Biel.

In international tournaments he won a number of successes, including: Niš (1970, 1st place), Olot (1971, shared second place ), São Paulo (1972, tied for first ), Wijk aan Zee (1973, B- 1 Tournament - 2 ), Torremolinos (1973, 1st - 2nd, shared with Pál Benkő ), Ljubljana (1973, 2nd - 4th ), Arrecife (1974, 1 ), Lanzarote (1974, 1 ), Torremolinos (1975, 1st - 2nd ), Fortaleza (1975, 2 ), Caracas (1976, 1 ), São Paulo (1977, 2 ), London ( 1977, 2nd - 4th ), Wellington (1978, 1 ), Jakarta (1978, 1st - 2nd ), Morón (1982, 1 ), Novi Sad (1982, 2nd - 3rd ) and in Netanya (1983, 1 ).

In the years 1970 to 1984, he took six times ( including four times on top board ) for Argentina participated in the Chess Olympiad. In 1976, he received at the Chess Olympiad in Haifa for his individual result on the third board the silver medal. Overall, he played 80 games at the Olympics and scored 51 points.

The friend of Bobby Fischer, who was on friendly and schachlichem contact with him during Fischer's 20 -year-old chess abstinence, played simultaneous chess in 1987 in Cape Town, Sun City and Johannesburg and was subsequently banned from FIDE for three years. Until the abolition of apartheid in South Africa, FIDE sanctioned players who participated in tournaments in this country.

Current Elo (April 2008): 2433rd