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Place of Birth: Ciego de Ávila, Ciego de Ávila Province, Cuba
About Eleazar Jiménez
- Eleazar Jiménez Zerquera (25 June 1928 – 6 May 2000) was a Cuban chess master. Jiménez won the Cuban Championship five times, in 1957, 1960, 1963, 1965, and 1967.
- He won the Pan American Chess Championship three times, in 1963, 1966 and 1970. In 1962, he tied for 15-16th in Havana (1st Capablanca Memorial; Miguel Najdorf won).
- In 1963, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Havana (zonal).
- In 1963, he tied for 16-17th in Havana (2nd Capablanca Memorial; Viktor Korchnoi won).
- In 1963, he took 14th in Moscow (Vasily Smyslov won).
- In 1964, he took 15th in Havana (3rd Capablanca Memorial; Wolfgang Uhlmann and Smyslov won).
- In 1965, he took 15th in Havana (4th Capablanca Memorial; Smyslov won). In 1966, he tied for 1st-2nd with Albéric O'Kelly de Galway in Costa del Sol, Spain.
- In 1967, he took 2nd in Caracas (zonal).
- In 1967, he took 18th in Palma de Mallorca (Bent Larsen won).
- In 1967, he took 16th in Leningrad (Korchnoi won).
- In 1968, he took 7th in Havana (6th Capablanca Memorial; Ratmir Kholmov won).
- In 1969, he tied for 8-9th in Havana (7th Capablanca Memorial; Alexei Suetin and Korchnoi won).
- In 1969, he tied for 1st-2nd with Olavo Yépez in Quito (zonal), and beat him in a playoff match (2,5 : 0,5).
- In 1970, he took 24th in Palma de Mallorca (interzonal; Robert James Fischer won).
- In 1971, he played for Cuba at first board (+2 –1 =3), and won team silver medal in Tucuman (1st Pan-American Chess Team Championship).
- In 1972, he took 16th in Cienfuegos (9th Capablanca Memorial; Anatoly Lein won). Jimenez played for Cuba in seven Chess Olympiads. In 1960, at first board in the 14th Chess Olympiad in Leipzig (+4 –3 =11); In 1962, at first board in the 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna (+3 –3 =13); In 1964, at first board in the 16th Chess Olympiad in Tel Aviv (+3 –2 =11); In 1966, at first board in the 17th Chess Olympiad in Havana (+4 –6 =5); In 1968, at first board in the 18th Chess Olympiad in Lugano (+3 –3 =6); In 1970, at second board in the 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen (+3 –1 =11); In 1974, at fourth board in the 21st Olympiad in Nice (+6 –0 =4).Jimenez was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1963.
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