Walter Arencibia

Walter Arencibia Rodríguez ( born July 21, 1967 in Holguín ) is a Cuban chess master.

Walter Arencibia learned chess age of eight and made ​​rapid progress. He won the 1985 Cuban Youth Championship and 1986 World Junior Champion in Gausdal. He was in the same year the Cuban national champion. In the course of 1990 Arencibia improved his Elo rating by 130 points to 2550: he won the championship again this year in Cuba, the Capablanca Memorial in Havana and qualified on the zone tournament for the Interzonal in Manila. For these achievements, he FIDE awarded the title of Grandmaster. Arencibia also participated in the Interzonal in Biel in 1993 in part. From 1986 to 2006, in Dubai in Turin, he represented Cuba at nine Chess Olympiads.

The highest number of his Elo rating was in January 2008 2573rd

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