Juan González de Vega


Juan González de Vega was a Cuban chess player and Cuban Chess Championship four-times winner.

Biography

From the early 1940s to the early 1960s Juan González de Vega was one of the leading Cuban chess players. He four times won the Cuban Chess Championship: 1942, 1943, 1951, and 1952. In 1946, in Manhattan Chess Club he won the U.S. Blitz Chess Championship.
Juan González de Vega played for Cuba in the Chess Olympiad:
In 1962, in Havana he participated in 1st Capablanca Memorial.
In 1960s Juan González de Vega emigrated to the United States and worked as surgery doctor at Manhattan's West Side Hospital.