Francisco Trois (3 September 1946 – 16 September 2020) was a Brazilian
chess
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International Master and
International Arbiter {{No footnotes, date=April 2022
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International Arbiter
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(1986). He was born in
Canoas, and won the
South American Chess Championship in 1978, in Tramandai, in the state of
Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
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. He qualified for the
Riga Interzonal
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in 1979, but finished with a disappointing result of +2 =6 -9. However, his two victories from that tournament were against strong grandmasters
Florin Gheorghiu
Florin Gheorghiu (born 6 April 1944) is a Romanian chess player and has been a university lecturer in foreign languages.
Born in Ploiești, on 6 April 1944, while the American bombers attacked the country's capital, his prodigious talent for the ...
and
Gennady Kuzmin
Gennady Pavlovich Kuzmin (, ; January 19, 1946 – February 28, 2020) was a Ukrainian chess player and trainer. He reached his peak strength in the early to mid-1970s and in 1973, was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE, t ...
. He represented
Brazil
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in the
Chess Olympiad
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s in 1972, 1978 and 1982.
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1946 births
2020 deaths
Brazilian chess players
Chess International Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Chess arbiters
People from Canoas
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