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Lazaro Bruzon Batista

Number of games in database: 1,124
Years covered: 1997 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2559 (2615 rapid, 2655 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2717
Overall record: +380 -149 =483 (61.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 112 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (108) 
    B90 B30 B42 B47 B50
 Ruy Lopez (66) 
    C67 C65 C78 C92 C77
 French Defense (41) 
    C11 C10 C19 C07 C18
 English (37) 
    A15 A13 A16 A10 A11
 Reti System (29) 
    A04 A06 A05
 Queen's Pawn Game (26) 
    A45 D02 A46 E10 A40
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (108) 
    B90 B40 B46 B92 B52
 Ruy Lopez (95) 
    C67 C65 C99 C92 C95
 Queen's Gambit Declined (42) 
    D37 D35 D31 D36 D30
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (38) 
    C99 C92 C95 C91 C97
 Sicilian Najdorf (37) 
    B90 B92 B96 B91 B95
 Queen's Pawn Game (32) 
    E00 D02 A40 A46 E10
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   L Bruzon Batista vs Anand, 2006 1-0
   L Bruzon Batista vs Carlsen, 2005 1-0
   L Bruzon Batista vs Krasenkow, 2005 1-0
   L Bruzon Batista vs Jobava, 2005 1-0
   L Bruzon Batista vs Dominguez Perez, 2004 1-0
   L Bruzon Batista vs Fridman, 2004 1-0
   A Beliavsky vs L Bruzon Batista, 2004 0-1
   L Bruzon Batista vs E Perelshteyn, 2000 1-0
   S Ernst vs L Bruzon Batista, 2012 0-1
   J Nogueiras vs L Bruzon Batista, 2005 0-1

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   World Junior Championship (2000)
   American Continental (2005)
   Corus Group B (2004)
   8th Edmonton International (2013)
   Capablanca Memorial (Elite) (2004)
   Tata Steel Group B (2012)
   Cuban Championship (2001)
   American Continental (2003)
   World Cup (2011)
   American Continental 9th (2013)
   Ubeda Open (2001)
   Istanbul Olympiad (2012)
   American Continental (2014)
   Tromso Olympiad (2014)
   Calvia Olympiad (2004)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Bruzon by Granmaestro
   2004 Wijk Aan Zee (Group B) by gauer
   Corus Group B 2004 by Tabanus
   Capablanca Memorial (Elite) 2003 by Tabanus
   2001 Capablanca memorial (elite) by trh6upsz
   2001 Capablanca memorial (elite) by gauer
   2002 Capablanca memorial (elite) by gauer
   2002 Capablanca memorial (elite) by chessgames.com
   Iberoamerican 2012 by Granmaestro

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Pan-Am Intercollegiate
   A Liang vs L Bruzon Batista (Jan-05-25) 1/2-1/2
   L Bruzon Batista vs V Gazik (Jan-04-25) 1/2-1/2
   S Aditya vs L Bruzon Batista (Jan-04-25) 1/2-1/2
   L Bruzon Batista vs S Lomasov (Jan-03-25) 1/2-1/2
   A Chumpitaz vs L Bruzon Batista (Jan-03-25) 0-1

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LAZARO BRUZON BATISTA
(born May-02-1982, 43 years old) Cuba (federation/nationality United States of America)

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IM (1999); GM (1999).

GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista was born in Cuba and has long been Cuba's #2 player behind Leinier Dominguez Perez. He began to compete internationally during his teenage years, gaining his Grandmaster title in 1999, 32 days after gaining his IM title. (1) In 2001 he became World Junior Champion and won the Lausanne Young Masters event, ahead of future top-ten players Ruslan Ponomariov, Etienne Bacrot, and Levon Aronian, among others.

In 2004 Bruzon entered FIDE's top 100 by winning the B-group of the Corus Chess Tournament at Wijk aan Zee. He also became Cuban champion in 2004, and that fall he scored 8.5/11 on second board at the Calvia Olympiad, recording a 2771 performance rating.

Bruzon's steady rating gains continued into 2005, when he made an even score at the Corus Group A (2005) against an average opposition rated well over 2700. Other successes that year included a second consecutive Cuban Championship and the American Continental Championship (2005) at Buenos Aires 2005. First Ibero-American Champion at Ayamonte 2006 [brasilbase-1]. He won the Cuban Championship in 2009 also.
In 2011 Champion http://www.ajedrezenmadrid.com/torn... of the Americas Continental at Toluca, sharing 1st place with Mark Bluvshtein, Giovanni Portilho Vescovi and Yuniesky Quesada Perez. At the World Cup (2011), Bruzon defeated Yuniesky Quesada Perez, Francisco Vallejo Pons and Le Quang Liem in the first three rounds, but lost to Ruslan Ponomariov during the blitz tiebreaker after drawing the classical games and both sets of rapid-play tiebreakers. His very successful participation (7.5/8 - +7 =1 against 6 GMs and 2 IMs(4)) in the Catalan team events in Spain launched him into the 2700 club for the first time. He competed in the 4th Ibero-American Championships held in Quito in Ecuador, winning his preliminary group and making the final, but came 3rd in the playoff for the top places. The Ecuadorian Chess Federation advised that it would not recognise the event for FIDE rating purposes, but it appears that it either changed its decision in this respect or FIDE took the matter into its own hands, and subsequently recognised the event in the October rating period. In July 2012, he played in the Quebec Invitational Open, and scored outright 2nd with 7/9, a half point behind Wesley So. He played second board for Cuba at the Chess Olympiad (2012) in Istanbul scoring close to par at 8/11 and finished 2012 by winning the 3rd JAHV McGregor tournament in Bogota, Colombia and the Internacional Copa AES 2012 held in the Dominican Republic.

Bruzon started 2013 by playing 2nd board for Cuba at the 9th Panamerican Team Chess Championship held in Brazil, the winner of which would qualify to play in the World Team Championships to be held later in 2013. Unfortunately for Cuba, while Bruzon scored a reasonably solid 4.5/6 (+3 =3), his country placed 2nd behind the USA. Since then he has had a couple of poor tournaments, including 7/10 in the relatively weak Capablanca Open that was held at the same time as the annual round robin Capablanca Memorial elite event, and a mediocre =6th at the American Continental championship, insufficient for him to qualify for the 2013 World Cup - between these two tournaments he shed 20 rating points. He won the Zonal 2.3 tournament held in Costa Rica in June 2013 and therefore qualified for the 2013 World Cup. Soon afterwards he won the 8th Edmonton International (2013) with a round to spare ahead of Nigel Short with 8/9 (23/27 in the football scoring system used). A couple of weeks later, Bruzon was =1st (3rd on tiebreak behind Varuzhan Eduardovich Akobian and countryman Yuniesky Quesada Perez respectively) with 6.5/9 at the World Open 2013 held in Arlington, Virginia. In his final hit out before the World Cup, Bruzon won the 2013 Quebec Invitational outright with a score of 7/9 and placed =3rd at the 2013 Canadian Open. After the World Cup, he placed outright first in the 1st Azuqueca Chess Classic in Spain, but nevertheless lost 5 rating points. (2) He finished up 2013 by placing =1st in the Panama Open 2013, 7/9 in the IV Jahv Mc Gregor ITT, and =1st in the XXV GM Carlos Torre Repetto in Memoriam Magistral.

Bruzon started 2014 with =1st with 7/9 at the V Abierto Internacional de Alajuela 2014 in Costa Rica, and then followed up with outright 1st on 6/7 at the Campeonato Nacional de Ajedrez Valladolid 2014 in Mexico, 1st at the Villahermosa Open in Mexico in April 2014 and =1st with 7/9 at the LX Campeonato Nacional e Internacional Abierto Mexicano 2014. He placed outright 2nd at the category 19 Capablanca Memorial (Elite) (2014) with 5.5/10, a point behind the winner Wesley So. Subsequently he came 2nd behind Kamsky at the 2014 2014 National Open and =1st with 7/9 alongside compatriot Quesada at the New York International but then crashed at the 2nd Annual DC International and at the World Open, both of which were staged in Arlington, Virginia in late June and early July 2014, shedding over 30 rating points. However, he returned to form in August at the Chess Olympiad (2014), when he performed strongly on board 2 for Cuba, narrowly missing an individual medal and helping Cuba to 7th place (9 places ahead o fits seeding), its equal strongest placing ever alongside its results in 1990 and 2004.

Bruzon qualified for the World Cup (2013) via Zonal 2.3, and defeated Evgeny Najer in the first round but was eliminated from the event when he lost to Azeri GM Teimour Radjabov in the tiebreaker to the second game. In October 2014, he placed =10th at the American Continental Championships, several places short of qualifying for the World Cup 2015, but made up for that lapse of form by winning Zonal 2.3 staged in Ecuador in 2015 to qualify for the World Cup (2015) where he defeated Vidit Santosh Gujrathi in the first round before being eliminated from the Cup upon his second round loss to former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. He again qualified to the 2017 World Cup(3).

He wound up 2014 with =2nd place at the ITT Millonario de Navidad Ciudad Bogota, with a score of 7/9, half a point behind the young Peruvian GM Emilio Cordova, followed by first place at the 26th International Carlos Torre Repetto Tournament with 7.5/9 and first place at the 5th Latin American Cup (8/9).

Bruzon's highest rating to date was 2717 in October 2012 when he also reached his highest ranking, #31 in the world.

Videos

Aman Hambleton and Lazaro can be seen playing in the 2013 Canadian open at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fknI...

References / Sources

(1) http://www.chess.com/article/view/c...,

(2) http://chess-results.com/tnr108411....,

(3) http://www.fide.com/images/stories/...,

(4) http://ratings.fide.com/individual_...,

(5) Wikipedia article: Lazaro Bruzon,

(6) http://www.2700chess.com/ (Live rating).

Last updated: 2020-07-31 09:06:20

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 page 1 of 45; games 1-25 of 1,124  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. R Gonzalez vs L Bruzon Batista  0-1261997CUB-chB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
2. L Bruzon Batista vs A Rodriguez  0-1331997CUB-chB30 Sicilian
3. R Gonzalez vs L Bruzon Batista  ½-½101999Copa Union de Reyes 4thB01 Scandinavian
4. R Gonzalez vs L Bruzon Batista  ½-½81999CUB-chA40 Queen's Pawn Game
5. F de la Paz Perdomo vs L Bruzon Batista  ½-½801999Capablanca mem Elite 34thB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
6. L Bruzon Batista vs M Godena  1-0411999Capablanca mem Elite 34thC78 Ruy Lopez
7. J Nogueiras vs L Bruzon Batista  ½-½731999Capablanca mem Elite 34thD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
8. L Bruzon Batista vs J Becerra Rivero  1-0651999Capablanca mem Elite 34thB06 Robatsch
9. I Morovic Fernandez vs L Bruzon Batista  ½-½281999Capablanca mem Elite 34thD58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
10. L Bruzon Batista vs A Hoffman  0-1631999Capablanca mem Elite 34thC41 Philidor Defense
11. S Atalik vs L Bruzon Batista  1-0471999Capablanca mem Elite 34thD58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
12. W Arencibia Rodriguez vs L Bruzon Batista  ½-½571999Capablanca mem Elite 34thD80 Grunfeld
13. L Bruzon Batista vs L Comas Fabrego  1-0621999Capablanca mem Elite 34thC67 Ruy Lopez
14. Miles vs L Bruzon Batista  ½-½321999Capablanca mem Elite 34thA14 English
15. L Bruzon Batista vs R Slobodjan  1-0381999Capablanca mem Elite 34thC78 Ruy Lopez
16. A Baburin vs L Bruzon Batista  0-1411999Capablanca mem Elite 34thE60 King's Indian Defense
17. L Bruzon Batista vs R Vera  ½-½91999Capablanca mem Elite 34thE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
18. L Bruzon Batista vs A Schenk  1-0301999World Championship U18B42 Sicilian, Kan
19. D Flores vs L Bruzon Batista  ½-½511999World Championship U18B06 Robatsch
20. L Bruzon Batista vs M Karttunen  1-0271999World Championship U18B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
21. D Kokarev vs L Bruzon Batista  1-0281999World Championship U18B42 Sicilian, Kan
22. M Kanep vs L Bruzon Batista  ½-½211999World Championship U18D98 Grunfeld, Russian
23. L Bruzon Batista vs T Kotanjian  1-0201999World Championship U18B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
24. D Kjartansson vs L Bruzon Batista  0-1291999World Championship U18A40 Queen's Pawn Game
25. L Bruzon Batista vs M Stryjecki  0-1361999World Championship U18C67 Ruy Lopez
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Apr-18-12  twinlark: Viva Lazaro!
May-05-12  Caissanist: For some reason the wheels come off for Bruzon every year at the Capablanca Memorial (except for 2009 when he managed to draw 9 games out of 10). This year he didn't make it to the tournament at all, withdrawing less than a week before the start for "personal reasons that would impede him from engaging in the tournament with aspirations for a good result", according to an official Cuban press release. There would seem to be something about this event that spooks him badly.
Jul-28-12  twinlark: Pipped at the post in Quebec. Well done anyway.
Jul-28-12  Wyatt Gwyon: What's this guy all repulsed by in the bio picture?
Jul-28-12  veigaman: Enigmatic and talented player, may be the latin version of morozevich!
Jul-28-12  twinlark: He and Dominguez are best of friends but are still deadly rivals. On a good day, he can leave Dominguez in the dust. On a bad day, he leaves himself in the dust.
Apr-17-13  Edmontonchessclub: GM Bruzon has just joined the Edmonton International (June 23-July 1st 2013), in Edmonton, Canada.

Other GM's in the tournament include Nigel Short, Eric Hansen and Victor Mikhalevski. Chessgames covered the event last year, and I believe they will do so again this year.

May-27-13  Kain3: <What's this guy all repulsed by in the bio picture?>

He always looks this way, his stare is actually quite scary over the board. I beleive he's at least as talented as Dominguez, but his play is much more inconsistent.

Jun-09-13  waustad: He'll be playing several events in Canada this Summer. Will we see a change in national affiliation? Maybe he should wait until next Spring if he's thinking of that. I grew up right across Lake Erie from Canada and visited often as a youth. Like many other places I've been to (including where I grew up), I'd rather be there in August than February.
Jun-09-13  waustad: BTW he won the Zonal in San Jose, CR so he'll be playing in the next World Cup.
Jun-10-13  Nicocobas: <waustad> I can't find a link to the Zonal in San Jose. Do you know of one?
Jun-11-13  twinlark: <Nicocobas>

http://chess-results.com/tnr102789..... The official site (accessed from that site) doesn't seem to yield anything useful.

Jun-13-13  waustad: Thanks <twinlark> I thought I got it from the Spanish chessbase, but I didn't find it there looking again. i might have found it from the news of the day links they have under the birthday players. I don't know.
Jun-30-13  catlover: If Bruzón is the 2nd highest ranked player in Cuba, I wonder who Cuba's first ranked player is.
Jul-01-13  csmath: <If Bruzón is the 2nd highest ranked player in Cuba, I wonder who Cuba's first ranked player is.>

Wesley So, of course.

Jul-01-13  John Abraham: <catlover> This guy Leinier Dominguez Perez
Jul-03-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  juan31: Felicidades por su triunfo en Edmonton, Maestro L. Bruzon, le deseo muchos triunfos mas.
Jul-06-13  usuario x: <the fourth ranked player in the Americas, behind Hikaru Nakamura, Gata Kamsky and Leinier Dominguez Perez>

interesante que los dos cubanos sean los mejores jugadores nacidos en américa de la actualidad

Jul-06-13  Estoc: <usuario x> You're forgetting Fabio Caruana, who was born in Miami.
Sep-20-13  Caissanist: Is there any way to get a list like "best 10 players in the Americas" on the FIDE ratings site? I know that for an individual player it will give the continental ranking, but there doesn't seem to be a way to see the entire list.
Oct-06-13  ChessVip: Richard Rapport from Hungary, Julio Granda from Peru,Ivan Cheparinov from Bulgaria,Lázaro Bruzón from Cuba and Iván Salgado from Spain are playing Entre Faros International Chess Tournament http://www.chessfaros.com/english/
May-12-14  SugarDom: Put down the bottle my friend.
May-13-14  twinlark: <Caissanist>

<Is there any way to get a list like "best 10 players in the Americas" on the FIDE ratings site? I know that for an individual player it will give the continental ranking, but there doesn't seem to be a way to see the entire list.>

Do you still need this?

May-15-14  Caissanist: <twinlark> Thanks for the reply. I would still like to know how to do this, or even if it is possible, yes.
May-15-14  Howard: Caissanist, could you be more specific ? For example, what do you mean by the Americas ? North and South America, combined ?
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