Pedro García Toledo

Peruvian chess player

Pedro García Toledo
Country	Peru
Born	1949

Pedro García Toledo (born 1949) is a Peruvian chess player and winner of the 1980 Peruvian Chess Championship.

Biography

Pedro García Toledo won the Peruvian Chess Championship in 1980.^[1] He participated in two South American Zonal tournaments, which were qualifying events for the FIDE World Chess Championship:

in 1969 in Mar del Plata, sharing 16th-17th place;
in 1975 in Fortaleza, finishing in 17th place.^[2]

In international team competitions, Pedro García Toledo played on the first board for Peru in the 1971 World Student Team Chess Championship in Mayagüez (+4, =1, -3),^[3] and on the second reserve board for Peru in the 1972 Chess Olympiad in Skopje (+0, =1, -4).^[4]

Pedro García Toledo studied psychiatry at the National University of San Marcos,^[5] and worked as a professor of medicine at the University of San Martín de Porres until 2016.^[6] His brothers Jorge and Javier are also chess players, the latter having also won a national championship in 1986.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Pinzón Sánchez, Felipe (December 2010). El ajedrez en el Perú (PDF) (in Spanish). Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. pp. 236, 245. ISBN 978-9972-42-939-2.
^ "OlimpBase :: All-Time Player History :: García Toledo, Pedro". www.olimpbase.org.
^ "OlimpBase :: World Student Team Chess Championship :: Pedro García Toledo". www.olimpbase.org.
^ "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Pedro García Toledo". www.olimpbase.org.
^ García Toledo, Pedro (December 2021). Adulterio. Observaciones de un médico psiquiatra [Adultery. Observations of a psychiatrist] (in Spanish). Lima: Medical College of Peru [es], Fondo Editorial Comunicacional. p. 10. ISBN 978-612-48702-3-1.
^ "Entrevista en vivo al MN Pedro García Toledo". Torre 64. 17 January 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2022.