Cuéllar Gacharná Miguel (19.11.1913 – 05.12.1985)

CuellarColombian International Master (1957). Best Colombian player in the 60’s and 70’s. Nine times he won the national championship. He was awarded a silver medal for the best second individual result at board 1 at the 1964 Olympiad.

Best results: won or shared first  Caracas Zonal 1967, Bogota 1969 and also 3rd at Mar del Plata 1952, 2ndCaracas 1973, 2nd Bogota 1976.

A participant at the Olympiads from 1954 until 1964 and to the Interzonal 1962, 1967 and 1973. Amoung his victims are Korchnoi, Geller, Najdorf, Reshevsky, and Szabo.

Peak rating: 2385 in 1979.