Enrique Reed Valenzuela (15 August 1915 – 11 May 1958) was a

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player,

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winner (1932).

Biography

Enrique Reed was a Chilean chess prodigy. In 1927, in

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he lost in a fifty move game against

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...

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. In 1932, Enrique Reed won

. He participated in International Chess Tournaments in

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(1944) and

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(1945, 1947). Enrique Reed played for Chile in the

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s: * In 1939, at reserve board in the

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(+10, =1, -5).

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Enrique Reed
chess games at 365chess.com 1915 births 1958 deaths Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century Chilean chess players {{Chile-chess-bio-stub