Carlos Enrique Cuartas Bedoya (15 August 1940–10 July 2011) was a
Colombian chess
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International Master
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He was
Colombian Champion seven times between 1965 and 1983.
Cuartas played ten times for Colombia in the
Chess Olympiad
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s.
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1940 births
2011 deaths
Chess International Masters
Colombian chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
20th-century Colombian people
21st-century Colombian people
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