Raimundo García

Raimundo García (27 May 1936 – 13 October 2020) was an Argentine chess master.

At the beginning of his career, he took 7th at Santa Fe 1956 (Miguel Najdorf won).

[1] García won at Mar del Plata 1962 (Torneo Latino-americano),[2] and was Argentine Champion in 1963.

He tied for 5-6th at Buenos Aires / Rio Hondo 1966 (zonal, Henrique Mecking won), tied for 3rd-4th at Mar del Plata 1969 (zonal, Najdorf and Oscar Panno won) and lost a match (play-off) to Mecking (0.5 : 2.5) at São Paulo 1969, took 14th at Buenos Aires 1970 (Robert James Fischer won), and tied for 3rd-4th at Mar del Plata 1976 (Raúl Sanguinetti and Victor Brond won).

García played for Argentina in Chess Olympiads: He was awarded the IM title in 1964.