César Augusto Blanco-Gramajo

César Augusto Blanco-Gramajo is an ICCF chess grandmaster.^[1][2]

Blanco-Gramajo has also been vice president and director of finance and administration Kellogg's Latin America region from 2000 until his early retirement in 2007.

Prior to joining Kelloggs, Blanco-Gramajo worked in various roles for both the Bank of America and Citibank.

Blanco received a business administration degree from San Carlos University in Guatemala and his thesis was awarded as the best in the country-1985- in the economics area. He also got an MBA –graduated as cum laude- in Finance from Francisco Marroquin University, also in Guatema la City.

Blanco was born January 14, 1959, in Guatemala city, Guatemala.

Blanco is a chess grandmaster by e-mail and has been, twice, Latin American champion is this modality. He won the XIII and XIV CADAP zonal championships. He received the CADAP Master title in 1985, then the IM title from ICCF in 1996, the SIM title in 1999 and the GM title in 2003.

He is married with Vivian Bock since 1983 and have three children: María Alejandra -25- (an architect living in Germany), Pablo Andrés -24- (living in Mexico) and Valeria (7).

Blanco started to play chess by 1972 when the famous math Fischer - Spassky called the attention of the world toward chess. He also represented his country in the chess Olympiads in Moscow, 1994.

By post, Blanco started to play around 1974 (when he was only 15 years old). The passion for the game increased with the years, but professional activity limited César participation in "live tournaments". On the other side, postal chess became his main source of activity to keep up to date with chess. Due to working reasons, Blanco left Guatemala and became a member of the US chess federation around 1998. He played several tournaments around the US a got his FIDE rating under the US federation. You may see an article in the USCF magazine here http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9998/571/

Currently, Blanco is living back in Guatemala and is playing the XXVI ICCF world final (you may see the cross tables at http://www.iccf-webchess.com) You may also see some of Mr. Blanco's games at http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=Cesar+Blanco

References

1. ^ http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9998/571/
2. ^ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9998/571/. 

(1) visit ICCF official web site for a list of world grandmasters www.iccf.com (2) see the USCF magazine at http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9998/571/ for additional information and games

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