Miguel Blas Alemán Dovo (3 February 1906 – 27 December 1979) was a
Cuba
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chess
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player, Cuban Chess Championship winner (1939).
From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, Miguel Alemán was one of the leading Cuban chess players. He won the Cuban Chess Championship in 1939. Miguel Alemán also participated in U.S. Open Chess Championship (1946, 1947) and a strong International Chess Tournament in
Havana
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Miguel Alemán played for Cuba in the
Chess Olympiad
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* In 1939, at third board in the
8th Chess Olympiad
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Buenos Aires
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* In 1952, at first board in the
10th Chess Olympiad
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Helsinki
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