Celso Golmayo y Zúpide (24 April 1820, in
Logroño
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Spain
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– 1 April 1898, in
Havana
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chess
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master.
He had been generally accepted as
Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of
Félix Sicre. He took part in the famous
Paris 1867 tournament where he tied for 7–8th (
Ignatz von Kolisch won).
In matches, he won against
Paul Morphy
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3 : 2 at Havana 1864 (blind simultan., Morphy gave odds of a knight); lost to
Gustav Neumann 0 : 3 in Paris in 1867; lost twice to
Wilhelm Steinitz
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2 : 9 in 1883 and 0 : 5 in 1888; won twice against
Andrés Clemente Vázquez
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7 : 0 in 1887 and 7 : 4 in 1890; lost thrice to
George Henry Mackenzie
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3 : 6 and 0.5 : 5.5 in 1887; and 4.5 : 7.5 in 1888; lost to
Joseph Henry Blackburne
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4 : 6 in 1891; and lost to
Emanuel Lasker
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0.5 : 2.5 in 1893, all in Havana.
Celso Golmayo y Zúpide was the father of
Celso Golmayo y de la Torriente and
Manuel Golmayo y de la Torriente.
He is also known as the professor of
Raul Jose Capablanca. He played several games with Jose when he was a child. Confessed he could not give a Knight advantage to the kid.
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1820 births
1898 deaths
Spanish chess players
Cuban chess players
Emigrants from Spain to Spanish Cuba
19th-century chess players
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