Pedro García Toledo

Pedro García Toledo
Country	Peru
Born	1949 (age 75–76)
Peak rating	2294 (July 2000)

Pedro García Toledo (born 1949) is a Peruvian chess player and winner of the 1980 Peruvian Chess Championship.

Biography

Pedro García Toledo won the Peruvian Chess Championship in 1980.[1] He participated in two South American Zonal tournaments, which were qualifying events for the FIDE World Chess Championship:

• in 1969 in Mar del Plata, sharing 16th-17th place;
• in 1975 in Fortaleza, finishing in 17th place.[2]

In international team competitions, Pedro García Toledo played on the first board for Peru in the 1971 World Student Team Chess Championship in Mayagüez (+4, =1, -3),[3] and on the second reserve board for Peru in the 1972 Chess Olympiad in Skopje (+0, =1, -4).[4]

Pedro García Toledo studied psychiatry at the National University of San Marcos,[5] and worked as a professor of medicine at the University of San Martín de Porres until 2016.[6] His brothers Jorge and Javier are also chess players, the latter having also won a national championship in 1986.[1]

References

1. Pinzón Sánchez, Felipe (December 2010). El ajedrez en el Perú (PDF) (in Spanish). Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. pp. 236, 245. ISBN 978-9972-42-939-2.
2. "OlimpBase :: All-Time Player History :: García Toledo, Pedro". www.olimpbase.org.
3. "OlimpBase :: World Student Team Chess Championship :: Pedro García Toledo". www.olimpbase.org.
4. "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Pedro García Toledo". www.olimpbase.org.
5. García Toledo, Pedro (December 2021). Adulterio. Observaciones de un médico psiquiatra [Adultery. Observations of a psychiatrist] (in Spanish). Lima: Medical College of Peru [es], Fondo Editorial Comunicacional. p. 10. ISBN 978-612-48702-3-1.
6. "Entrevista en vivo al MN Pedro García Toledo". Torre 64. 17 January 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2022.

External links

• Pedro Garcia Toledo rating card at FIDE
• Pedro Garcia Toledo player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Pedro Garcia Toledo chess games at 365Chess.com