Rodrigo Flores
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Rodrigo Flores Álvarez (23 August 1913, Santiago – 17 January 2007, Santiago) was a Chilean engineer and chess master.[1]
[edit] Chess
Flores was Chilean Champion eleven times: 1931, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1961, and 1965.
In 1936, he tied for 7-8th with Jácobo Bolbochán in Mar del Plata (Isaias Pleci won). In 1937, he won, ahead of René Letelier, in São Paulo. In 1938, he took 8th in Montevideo (Alexander Alekhine won).[2]
Rodrigo Flores played for Chile in three Chess Olympiads.
- In 1939, at second board in the 8th Olympiad in Buenos Aires (+4 –5 =9);
- In 1950, at second board in the 9th Olympiad in Dubrovnik (+6 –3 =6);
- In 1956, at first board in the 12th Olympiad in Moscow (+2 –6 =9).[3]
In 1949, he tied for 6-9th in Mar del Plata (Hector Rossetto won). In 1951, he took 4th in Mar del Plata / Buenos Aires (zt; Erich Eliskases and Julio Bolbochán won). In 1959, he tied for 7-8th in Santiago (Borislav Ivkov and Luděk Pachman won). In 1960, he tied for 3rd-5th in São Paolo (zt; Bolbochán won). In 1961, he took 2nd, behind Eugenio German, in São Paulo (zt; playoff). In 1962, he took 2nd in Mar del Plata (Raimundo Garcia won).[4]
[edit] Engineering
Rodrigo Flores was an outstanding civil engineer. He entered the Chilean Academy of Sciences on 1970. On 1993 he won the national prize offered by Colegio de Ingenieros de Chile.
