Pedro García Toledo
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Pedro García Toledo (born 1949) is a Peruvian
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player and winner of the 1980
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Biography

Pedro García Toledo won the
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in 1980. He participated in two South American Zonal tournaments, which were qualifying events for the FIDE
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: * in 1969 in
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, sharing 16th-17th place; * in 1975 in
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, finishing in 17th place. In international team competitions, Pedro García Toledo played on the first board for Peru in the 1971 World Student Team Chess Championship in Mayagüez (+4, =1, -3), and on the second reserve board for Peru in the 1972 Chess Olympiad in
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(+0, =1, -4). Pedro García Toledo studied psychiatry at the
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, and worked as a professor of medicine at the
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until 2016. His brothers Jorge and Javier are also chess players, the latter having also won a national championship in 1986.


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* * * 1949 births Living people Peruvian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors National University of San Marcos alumni Physicians from Lima Academic staff of the University of San Martín de Porres 20th-century Peruvian people 21st-century Peruvian people Chess players from Lima {{Peru-med-bio-stub