Gildardo García

Gildardo García
Country	Colombia
Born	9 March 1954 (1954-03-09)
Died	15 January 2021(2021-01-15) (aged 66) Medellín, Colombia
Title	Grandmaster (2008)
Peak rating	2540 (July 1994)

Gildardo García (9 March 1954 – 15 January 2021) was a Colombian chess grandmaster.

Biography

García became Colombia's second Grandmaster in 1992.[1][2] His highest rating was 2540 (in July 1994) and he was ranked 14th in Colombia at the time of his death.[3]

He won the Colombian national championship 10 times, in 1977, 1978, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1995, 2003, and 2006.[4][5][6] In 1974, he won the inaugural Pan American Junior Chess Championship.[7] In 2006, he played in the chess olympiads for Colombia.[8]

He died from COVID-19 in Medellín on 15 January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia.[9][2]

References

1. "Garcia, Gildardo FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
2. Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (2021-01-15). "Luto en el ajedrez colombiano: muere el Gran Maestro Gildardo García". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-15.
3. "Gildardo Garcia chess games and profile - Chess-DB.com". chess-db.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
4. "Campeonato de Colombia de ajedrez". www.ajedrezdeataque.com. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
5. "Campeones colombianos". 2012-02-06. Archived from the original on 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
6. "The chess games of Gildardo Garcia". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
7. "San Juan 1974 - 1° Campeonato Panamericano Juvenil". www.brasilbase.pro.br. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
8. "Gildardo Garcia - Chess Games". old.chesstempo.com. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
9. @FIDE_chess (15 January 2021). "We have just received the sad news about the passing of Gildardo García. He was the second Colombian to achieve the…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.