Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suárez (born 30 March 1985 in

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) is a Cuban

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grandmaster. He is a three-time Cuban Chess Champion.

Chess career

He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 2011. Ortiz Suárez won the Cuban Chess Championship in 2013, 2014, and 2015. He was the runner-up in the American Continental Chess Championship in 2013. At the

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he knocked out

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in the first round, then he lost to

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in round two and therefore was eliminated from the competition. Ortiz Suárez played for the Cuban team in the

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s of 2012 and 2014, and

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of 2015. In the 2014 Chess Olympiad he won the silver medal on board four thanks to his rating performance of 2766 after five wins, two draws and a loss.41st Olympiad Tromso 2014 Open - Cuba
Chess-Results In 2019, Ortiz tied for first place at the U.S. Masters Chess Championship.

References

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