Celso Golmayo y de la Torriente (1879, Havana

Havana

Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...

 – 22 January 1924, Seville

Seville

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) was a Cuban–Spanish chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He was the son of Celso Golmayo y Zúpide

Celso Golmayo Zúpide

Celso Golmayo y Zúpide was a Spanish–Cuban chess master.He had been generally accepted as Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre...

 and the brother of Manuel Golmayo y de la Torriente.

Celsito Golmayo won the 1897 Cuban championship in Havana after a play-off against Andrés Clemente Vázquez. In that tournament Enrique Ostolaza came third, Juan Corzo

Juan Corzo

Juan Corzo y Principe was a Spanish–Cuban chess master, champion of Cuba immediately preceding José Capablanca....

 fourth and Manuel Golmayo fifth. Golmayo's victory was unusual because national championship were rarely won by teenagers in the 19th century.

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