Eleazar Jiménez Zerquera (25 June 1928 – 6 May 2000) was a Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

n 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.

Jiménez won the Cuban Championship

Cuban Chess Championship

In the second part of the 19th century, Celso Golmayo Zúpide had been generally accepted as Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre. In 1912–1937 Cuban Championship as Copa Dewar occurred...

 five times, in 1957, 1960, 1963, 1965, and 1967. He won the Pan American Chess Championship

Pan American Chess Championship

The first Pan-American Championship was held in Hollywood, 28 July - 12 August 1945. The line-up was as follows: 1. Samuel Reshevsky 10.5, 2. Reuben Fine 9, 3. Herman Pilnik 8.5, 4. Israel Horowitz 8, 5. Isaac Kashdan 7, 6. Hector Rossetto 6.5, 7-8. Weaver Adams , Herman Steiner 5.5, 9-10....

 three times, in 1963, 1966 and 1970.

In 1962, he tied for 15-16th in Havana (1st Capablanca Memorial; Miguel Najdorf

Miguel Najdorf

Miguel Najdorf was a Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation....

 won). In 1963, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Havana (zonal). In 1963, he tied for 16-17th in Havana (2nd Capablanca Memorial; Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ; pronounced in the original Russian as "karch NOY"; Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, born March 23, 1931 is a professional chess player, author and currently the oldest active grandmaster on the tournament circuit...

 won). In 1963, he took 14th in Moscow (Vasily Smyslov

Vasily Smyslov

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions . Smyslov was twice equal first at the Soviet Championship , and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won...

 won). In 1964, he took 15th in Havana (3rd Capablanca Memorial; Wolfgang Uhlmann

Wolfgang Uhlmann

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 and Smyslov won). In 1965, he took 15th in Havana (4th Capablanca Memorial; Smyslov won).

In 1966, he tied for 1st-2nd with Albéric O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric O'Kelly de Galway was a Belgian chess Grandmaster , and an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster , most famous for being the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1959 and 1962. He was also a chess writer...

 in Costa del Sol, Spain. In 1967, he took 2nd in Caracas (zonal). In 1967, he took 18th in Palma de Mallorca (Bent Larsen

Bent Larsen

Jørgen Bent Larsen was a Danish chess Grandmaster and author. Larsen was known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play and he was the first western player to pose a serious challenge to the Soviet Union's dominance of chess...

 won). In 1967, he took 16th in Leningrad (Korchnoi won). In 1968, he took 7th in Havana (6th Capablanca Memorial; Ratmir Kholmov

Ratmir Kholmov

Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his career, and tied for the Soviet Championship title in 1963, but lost the playoff...

 won). In 1969, he tied for 8-9th in Havana (7th Capablanca Memorial; Alexei Suetin and Korchnoi won). In 1969, he tied for 1st-2nd with Olavo Yépez

Olavo Yépez

Olavo Yépez Obando is an Ecuadorian chess master.He won Ecuadorian Chess Championship at Pichincha 1962, took 9th at Mar del Plata 1962 , tied for 3rd-6th at Havana 1966 , played at Caracas 1967 , took 2nd, behind...

 in Quito (zonal), and beat him in a playoff match (2,5 : 0,5). In 1970, he took 24th in Palma de Mallorca (interzonal; Robert James Fischer won). In 1971, he played for Cuba at first board (+2 –1 =3), and won team silver medal in Tucuman (1st Pan-American Chess Team Championship). In 1972, he took 16th in Cienfuegos (9th Capablanca Memorial; Anatoly Lein

Anatoly Lein

Anatoly Yakovlevich Lein is a Soviet-born American chess Grandmaster.FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1964 and the Grandmaster title in 1968.He won the 1971 Moscow championship after a play-off...

 won).

Jimenez played for Cuba in seven Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

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s.

• In 1960, at first board in the 14th Chess Olympiad
  14th Chess Olympiad
  The 14th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 26 and November 9, 1960, in Leipzig, East Germany.-References:...
  
   in Leipzig (+4 –3 =11);
• In 1962, at first board in the 15th Chess Olympiad
  15th Chess Olympiad
  The 15th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between September 15 and October 10, 1962, in Varna, Bulgaria.-References:* OlimpBase...
  
   in Varna (+3 –3 =13);
• In 1964, at first board in the 16th Chess Olympiad
  16th Chess Olympiad
  The 16th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between November 2 and November 25, 1964, in Tel Aviv, Israel.-References:* OlimpBase...
  
   in Tel Aviv (+3 –2 =11);
• In 1966, at first board in the 17th Chess Olympiad
  17th Chess Olympiad
  The 17th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 23 and November 20, 1966, in Havana, Cuba.-References:* OlimpBase...
  
   in Havana (+4 –6 =5);
• In 1968, at first board in the 18th Chess Olympiad
  18th Chess Olympiad
  The 18th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 17 and November 7, 1968, in Lugano, Switzerland.-References:* OlimpBase...
  
   in Lugano (+3 –3 =6);
• In 1970, at second board in the 19th Chess Olympiad
  19th Chess Olympiad
  The 19th Chess Olympiad, comprising an open team tournament and the Annual Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, took place between September 5 and September 27, 1970, in the small town of Siegen, West Germany.-Tournament report:...
  
   in Siegen (+3 –1 =11);
• In 1974, at fourth board in the 21st Olympiad in Nice (+6 –0 =4).

Jimenez was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1963.