Cuban grandmaster Lazaro Batista Bruzón
In the final round Lázaro Bruzón drew with Black against Alan Pichot - that was enough to win the tournament.
Top seed Paco Vallejo Pons finished on seventh place
The Ibero-American Championships, a nine round swisss tournament, attracted almost 100 players from Spain and Latin America.
| 1 | m | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | 7,5 | 41.5 | 48.5 | 53.0 | 2659 |
| 2 | m | Granda Zuniga, Julio E | PER | 7,0 | 44.0 | 51.5 | 56.0 | 2667 |
| 3 | m | Bachmann, Axel | PAR | 7,0 | 41.5 | 48.5 | 53.0 | 2593 |
| 4 | m | Del Rio De Angelis, Salvador G. | ESP | 7,0 | 41.0 | 48.5 | 52.5 | 2512 |
| 5 | m | Pichot, Alan | ARG | 7,0 | 40.0 | 47.5 | 51.5 | 2523 |
| 6 | m | Martinez Duany, Lelys Stanley | CUB | 7,0 | 38.0 | 45.0 | 48.0 | 2470 |
| 7 | m | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 6,5 | 40.0 | 47.0 | 51.5 | 2684 |
| 8 | m | Santos Latasa, Jaime | ESP | 6,5 | 39.5 | 47.0 | 51.0 | 2518 |
| 9 | m | Fier, Alexandr | BRA | 6,0 | 43.5 | 50.5 | 55.0 | 2624 |
| 10 | m | Peralta, Fernando | ARG | 6,0 | 40.5 | 48.0 | 53.0 | 2563 |
| 11 | m | Trigo Urquijo, Sergio | ESP | 6,0 | 37.5 | 44.5 | 48.0 | 2362 |
| 12 | m | Fernandez Borrego, Pablo | ESP | 6,0 | 37.0 | 44.0 | 47.0 | 2410 |
| 13 | m | Roselli Mailhe, Bernardo | URU | 6,0 | 36.5 | 43.5 | 47.0 | 2411 |
| 14 | m | Medarde Santiago, Luis Marcos | ESP | 6,0 | 33.5 | 40.5 | 44.0 | 2324 |
... 93 players
Leontxo Garcia greets guests and participants
Chess journalist Leontxo Garcia does much to make chess popular.
Arbiter Álvaro Rinaldo and Technical Director Juan Carlos Fernández
Axel Bachmann from Paraguay (left) receives the prize for third place from FIDE-Vice-President Georgios Makropoulos
Axel Bachmann and Julio Granda Zuniga, who became second, with Javier Ochoa
Leontxo Garcia congratulates the winner
Lázaro Bruzón with the traditional winners trophy! Standing next to him is Mikel Álvarez
The three winners
Bachmann, Bruzón, Granda
The new Ibero-American Champion
Photos: Organizer
