Julio César Balparda Muró (c. 1900 – 9 July 1942 in

Montevideo Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern ...

) was an Uruguayan

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

master. He won the

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three times (1929, 1934, and 1936). He played several times in the South American Chess Championship; tied for 10-12th at Mar del Plata 1928 (''I Magistral Ciudad de Mar del Plata, III Campeonato Sudamericano'', Roberto Grau won), tied for 3rd-6th at Mar del Plata 1934 ( Aaron Schwartzman won), took 17th at Buenos Aires 1934/35 ( Luis Piazzini won), took 15th at Mar del Plata 1936 ( Isaías Pleci won), took 14th at São Paulo 1937 ( Rodrigo Flores won), and took 11th at Montevideo (Carrasco) 1938 (

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won). In his last international tournaments, he took 5th at Montevideo 1941, and 10th at Aguas de Sao Pedro/São Paulo 1941, both won by

Erich Eliskases Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess player who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition. In the late 1930s he was considered a potential contender for the World Championship. ...

References

External links

Julio Balparda at 365Chess.com
1900s births 1942 deaths Uruguayan chess players 20th-century chess players {{Uruguay-chess-bio-stub