Lazaro Bruzon
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Lázaro Bruzón at the 2005 Corus chess tournament
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| Full name | Lázaro Bruzón Batista |
| Country | Cuba |
| Born |
2 May 1982 Holguín, Cuba |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2652 (March 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2711 (May 2012) |
Lázaro Bruzón Batista (born 2 May 1982 in Holguín) is a Cuban chess grandmaster. He is a former World Junior Champion, two-time American Continental champion, two-time Iberoamerican champion and five-time Cuban champion.
Bruzón played for Cuba at the Chess Olympiads between 2000 and 2014.
He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 2000. This achievement qualified him for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002.
Bruzón won the Lausanne Young Masters, a knockout event, in 2001 by defeating Etienne Bacrot in the final. Later that year, at the end of November, he competed in the FIDE World Championship: after defeating in the first round Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, he was knocked out by Kiril Georgiev.
In 2002, Bruzón won the 37th Capablanca Memorial (Elite group) and shared first place with compatriot Leinier Dominguez in the North Sea Cup.
In January 2004, he won the Corus B tournament and thus earned a spot in the 2005 Corus A tournament. In June of that year, he won the 12th Guillermo Garcia Memorial in Villa Clara. In October 2004, he played on second board for Cuba in the 36th Chess Olympiad, scoring 8/11 with a performance rating of 2771. This result helped his team to finish seventh.
In 2004 he also won the Cuban Chess Championship for the first time. He also won it in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010.
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