Alberto Foguelman

Alberto Foguelman (born 13 October 1923, Buenos Aires) – an Argentine chess master.

Born in Buenos Aires, he is a member of "Círculo de Ajedrez de Villa del Parque de Buenos Aires", since 1945. [ [http://www.chessville.com/Espanol/NuestroCirculo/NuestroCirculo_115.htm Chessville en Español - Nuestro Círculo #115 ] ] He played many times in Argentine Chess Championship (1953 – 1976), and twice shared 2nd in 1959 (Bernardo Wexler won) and in 1962 (Raúl Sanguineti won). [ [http://ar.geocities.com/carlasevigne/Campeonatos_Argentinos_tablas.htm Campeonatos Argentinos de Ajedrez ] ] His best achievement was 3rd, after Vasily Smyslov and Efim Geller, at Santiago de Chile 1965. [ [http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Santiago_1965 Santiago 1965 - 365Chess.com Tournaments ] ] He also took 2nd place, behind Héctor Rossetto, at Fortaleza 1963 (zonal), [ [http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/rot1963z.htm Fortaleza 1963 - 5° Zonal Sulamericano ] ] tied for 17-19th at Amsterdam 1964 (interzonal), [ [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/6466$iix.htm World Chess Championship : 1964-66 cycle : 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal ] ] and shared 1st with Henrique Mecking, Julio Bolbochán and Oscar Panno at Rio Hondo 1966 (zonal). [ [http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/rot1966z.htm Buenos Aires / Rio Hondo 1966 - 6° Zonal Sulamericano ] ]

In other tournaments, he won at Buenos Aires ("La Régence") 1959, won at Quilmes 1959, [ [http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Mound/7762/jag/base5059.htm base5059 ] ] tied for 9-11th at Belgrad 1962 (Svetozar Gligorić won), tied for 3rd-4th at Mar del Plata 1962 ("Torneo Latinoamericano", Raimundo Garcia won), [ [http://brasilbase.pro.br/ti1962ml.htm Mar del Plata 1962 - Torneo Latino-americano ] ] tied for 3rd-5th at Havana 1963 (Pan American-ch, Eleazar Jimenez won), [ [http://brasilbase.pro.br/ti1963lh.htm La Habana 1963 - Torneo Panamericano ] ] took 5th at Chacabuco 1965 (Jorge Pelikán won), and shared 5th at Mar del Plata 1967 (Open, Miguel Najdorf won). [ [http://www.chessmetrics.com Welcome to the Chessmetrics site ] ]

Foguelman represented Argentina in Chess Olympiads:
* In 1960 at second reserve board in 14th Olympiad in Leipzig (+5 –4 =1);
* In 1962 at at second reserve board in 15th Olympiad in Varna (+4 –0 =2), and won team bronze medal. [ [http://www.olimpbase.org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess ] ] He was awarded the International Master title in 1963. [http://www.chessmile.com/spip.php?article66]

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