Francisco Trois (3 September 1946 – 16 September 2020) was a Brazilian

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International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

and

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(1986). He was born in

Canoas Canoas () is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, forming part of the Greater Porto Alegre area. It is the largest municipality of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre and the third largest municipality of Rio Grande do ...

, and won the

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in 1978, in Tramandai, in the state of

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. He qualified for the

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in 1979, but finished with a disappointing result of +2 =6 -9. However, his two victories from that tournament were against strong grandmasters

Florin Gheorghiu Florin Gheorghiu (born 6 April 1944) is a Romanian Chess, chess player and has been a university lecturer in foreign languages. Born in Ploiești, on 6 April 1944, while the American bombers Bombing of Bucharest in World War II, attacked the coun ...

and

Gennady Kuzmin Gennady Pavlovich Kuzmin (, ; January 19, 1946 – February 28, 2020) was a Ukrainian chess player and trainer. He reached his peak strength in the early to mid-1970s and in 1973, was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE, the ...

. He represented

in the

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s in 1972, 1978 and 1982.

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