Miguel Cuéllar Gacharná (18 November 1916 – 5 December 1985) was a Colombian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

master from

Tinjacá Tinjacá is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province. Tinjacá is located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of from the department capital Tunja. It borders Sutamarchán i ...

. Cuéllar won the Colombian championship nine times: in 1941, 1946, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, and 1971. He played for Colombia in six Chess Olympiads: 1954, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1970, and 1972. He won individual silver medal at first board (+12 –2 =4) in the 16th Olympiad at Tel Aviv 1964.Cuéllar Gacharná, Miguel
team chess record at olimpbase.org He won a bronze medal representing Colombia at the

1938 Bolivarian Games The I Bolivarian Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Bolivarianos'') were a multi-sport event held between August 6–22, 1938, in Bogotá, Colombia, at the Estadio El Campín, for the city's 400th anniversary. The Games were organized by the Bolivarian Spo ...

in Bogotá. In 1952, he tied for 3rd-4th in Mar del Plata (

Julio Bolbochán Julio Bolbochán (Buenos Aires, 20 March 1920 – Caracas, 28 June 1996) was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948. He learned the game from his older brother, Jacobo Bolbochán, later an International Master. He represented Argentina ...

and Héctor Rossetto won). In 1953, he took 5th in Mar del Plata ( Svetozar Gligorić won). In 1957, he took 7th in Mar del Plata ( Paul Keres won). In 1958, he tied for 2nd-3rd with William Lombardy, behind

Oscar Panno Oscar Roberto Panno (born 17 March 1935 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chess Grandmaster. Panno was the first top world chess player born in South America. Panno won the 2nd World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, ahead of such future stron ...

, in Bogotá. In 1961, Cuéllar won in Caracas (zonal). In 1962, he placed 22nd at the Stockholm Interzonal, defeating both Efim Geller and

Viktor Korchnoi Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ( rus, Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, p=vʲiktər lʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐrtɕˈnoj; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He ...

in individual games. In 1966, he took 7th in Havana (

Eleazar Jiménez Eleazar Jiménez Zerquera (25 June 1928 – 6 May 2000) was a Cuban chess master. Jiménez won the Cuban Championship five times, in 1957, 1960, 1963, 1965, and 1967. He won the Pan American Chess Championship three times, in 1963, 1966 and 1970. ...

won). In 1967, he tied for 19-20th in Sousse (interzonal; Bent Larsen won). In 1969, he tied for 1st with Boris de Greiff in Bogotá. In 1970, he took 7th in Bogotá (

Henrique Mecking Henrique Costa Mecking (born 23 January 1952), also known as Mequinho, is a Brazilian chess grandmaster who reached his zenith in the 1970s and is still one of the strongest players in Brazil. He was a chess prodigy, drawing comparisons to Bobby ...

won). In 1970, he took 14th in Caracas ( Lubomir Kavalek won). In 1972, he won the Zonal tournament in Bogotá, and qualified for the 1973 Leningrad Interzonal, but finished there in last place ( Anatoly Karpov and

won). In 1980, he tied for 4-5th in Bogotá ( Joaquin Gutierrez won). He was awarded the

International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(IM) title in 1957.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuellar, Miguel 1916 births 1985 deaths Colombian chess players Chess International Masters Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century chess players