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Premio de la FIDE – Agosto 2021 – Nelson Pinal Borges (born in Cuba on 28/02/1955) showed early promise in National Champion School Games, Havana, 1967 and 1968, and became national champion in 1970. Two years later he won both individual and team gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Championship (Mexico 1972). Later or he earned IM title in Zonal Tournament (Manzanillo, Cuba 1981) and came first twice in the Joaquín Hurtado Tournament (Managua 1984 and 1985).

In 2006 he became a citizen of the Dominican Republic and demonstrated some good results in his new home country and representing it in Istanbul (2012), Norway 2014 (RD women’s team coach) and Baku (2016).
A respected trainer in his region, a popular blogger, he authored two books «Chess for fans» (1996) and “From Capablanca to Magnus Carlsen” (2020)