Cuban Grandmaster (1978). Cuban Champion 1982. One of the best Cuban players of the 1970’s. A member of the Cuban team at the World U26 in 1969, 1972 and 1976. Best results: 3rd Toth Memorial 1975, 2nd Biel 1977, 2nd Radio Rebelde 1978, 2nd Bogota 1978, Havana 1983, 1st Le Touquet 1988. A participant in

Mexican Grandmaster (1995) and coach. Three times the Champion of Mexico. For more than ten years he was the best-rated player in Mexico. Panamerican Champion U16. Best results: winner or shared first at Lyon Open 1990, Capablanca Memorial II in 1992 and 1995, El Salvador 1995, Zaragosa Open 2000, Torrent Open 2002, Murcia Open 2002 and

Swedish Grandmaster (1988) who was European U20 Champion in 1984-5 and Bronze medallist at the World U20 in 1986. Best results: 1st at the Amsterdam Ohra Open 1985, 1st Berlin 1988 (VIII) and 1st Budapest 1988 (IX), 1st at Malmo 1988-9, 1st Parthenay 1992, New York Open 1993, 1st Gausdal and  Malmoe 1993, 1st Ischia

Serbian Grandmaster (1986). Champion of Yugoslavia in 1986. Best results: Belgrade 1975, 1st; Caorle 1982 and 1986, 1st; Zurich 1983/84, 1st; Luanda 1983, 1st; Puvarevo in 1987, 1st; Budapest 1987, 1st; Chiasso in 1989, 1st; Las Palmas II in 1992, 1st; Memorial Pedro Lezcano Montalvo 2011, 2nd. Peak rating: 2555 in 1987.  

Colombian Grandmaster (2009). Vice Champion of Colombia in 2006. Best results: La Raza-Medellin 2003, 1st; Santiago de Cali Open 2005, 1st; Ciutat de Badalona Open 2006, 1st; Open de Nadal Sants-Montju (ESP) 2006, 1st; Vila de Sitges 2008, 1-4th; Obert Internacional La Pobla de Lillet 2009, 1-2nd. A participant in the Olympiads between 2002 and 2014.

Russian Grandmaster. Ukrainian and Soviet Junior Champions. Coach of Mikhail Gurevich in the late 1980’s. H died in 2017 after a long battle with cancer. Best results: winner in Schelde (BEL) 1974, Kiev 1989, Sverdlovsk 1989, second in Novi Sad in 1987. In the 1990s, he left chess to set up a successful gambling company in Moscow.

Hungarian chess historian, journalist and engineer.  His first name was Khloyber. Foldeak was also an International Judge in Chess Compositions 1964. He was the author of the famous book about the history of the Chess Olympiads (1958) and also the book on Geza Maroczy and the monograph on Gedeon Barcza and Ein Vierteljahrhundert Turmendspiele, Theorie

Indonesian Grandmaster. Best results: 2-4th Kuala Lumpur zl 1990, 2nd Beijin 1992, 1st Jakarta 1993 and 1994. A participant in the 8 Olympiads from 1980 until 2000. Peak rating: 2520 in 1993.

Danish Grandmaster (1998). When Sune Berg Hansen won the Excelsior Cup in Gothenburg in 1998, he became Denmark’s seventh grandmaster. The following year, he tied for first place with Peter Heine Nielsen in the Danish championship but lost in the playoff. However, he won the championship in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2012. In

Danish Grandmaster (2001) and coach. Danish Champion in 1978, 1986 and 1992. Junior Champion in 1972. A participant in the Olympiads between 1978 and 1996. Best results: winner the Copenhagen Open in 1979 and 1997, Callela in 1980, Prague in 1980. Peak rating: 2510 (1989).