Lázaro Bruzón

A Cuban native, from Holguín, to be precise, born in 1982, and currently the second best player from his country.

He took his first lessons along with her sister from a neighbor and from 1991 started to train in a more systematic way.

Later on, during his teenage years, he was named sub-20 national champion, but it's in 2000 when he wins the World Junior Championship, along with other important titles. Furthermore, he won the Cuban National Championship several times, in 2004, 2005 and 2007, defeating, in the latter, Leinier Domínguez.

In 2003, won the International Tournament elite group José Raúl Capablanca and made its first foray into a World Championship, but was unable to move from the preliminary phase.

The year 2004 was a prodigal Bruzón, although after qualifying in the Pan American tournament, returned to stay in the preliminary round of the World Championship in Tripoli, Libya, where his colleague GM Leinier Dominguez, recorded a strong performance at the end in the eighth.

At 22 years old, begins with a brilliant performance that leads to the title in the group B of WIGK aan Zee tournament in the Netherlands, a result which earns the right to be in the key elite in the 2005 edition.

In 2006, is sixth in the 39th International Chess Festival Biel, Switzerland, which took place from July 22 to August 4 and the six chess players who competed under the system of double round.

The only title that was missing home, the Champion of Cuba, get it in April at the National Olympiad II, first of Chess, which was awarded by the Russian chess player Anatoly Karpov, and shortly before attending the World Championships Libya subliderato obtained in the corresponding edition of Capablanca won by Leinier Dominguez.

He has won the Chess Championship Cuba five times: in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010. He won the 2007 final in the previous champion, Leinier Dominguez, a duel that was decided in the playoffs to five minutes and took place between 9 and January 31 in Santa Clara, Cuba.

After a 2009 where the results were adverse and dropped him in ELO, has a clear recovery in 2010, which led him to start 2011 with 2686 Elo, close to the exclusive club of 2700.