César Muñoz Vicuña (1929–2000) was an Ecuadorian

chess master A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted for life. The international chess governing body FIDE grants several titles, the most pres ...

. An amateur, he was an engineer by profession. He played for Ecuador at first board in the fourth World Student Team Chess Championship at Reykjavík 1957 (+3 –6 =4), where he beat already reputed Fridrik Olafsson, and Bent Larsen. At the

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at Leipzig 1960 (+9 –3 =7), the unknown Ecuadorian caused a sensation in the preliminaries of the Leipzig Olympiad when he beat Bobby Fischer. In 1962, he took second place, behind Olavo Yépez, in Pichincha (ECU-ch); and took seventh place at

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1969 (zonal;

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and Olavo Yépez Obando won).Chessmetrics website
For a number of years he was chair of the Ecuadorean Sports Association, and the Complejo Deportivo César Muñoz Vicuña was named after him.

Notable chess games

Bent Larsen vs César Muñoz, Reykjavík 1957, 4th World Student Team Chess Championship, English, A15, 0-1Robert James Fischer vs César Muñoz, Leipzig 1960, 14th Olympiad, Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, B77, 0-1

Ecuadorian Defeated a 'Hostile Alien Force' that had an IQ Greater than Albert Einstein!

References

Ecuadorian chess players 1929 births 2000 deaths 20th-century chess players Chess Olympiad competitors {{Ecuador-chess-bio-stub