Joaquín Carlos Diaz

Joaquín Carlos Díaz Díaz, known by the hypocorism Quinito, (5 July 1948 — 11 June 2015) was a Cuban chess International Master (IM).

Biography Joaquín Carlos Díaz was born in Pinar del Río in 1948. From the late 1960s to the early 1990s he was one of the leading Cuban chess players. At the 1969 World Junior Chess Championship in Stockholm, he was the first Cuban to play Anatoly Karpov; according to Díaz's own account, Karpov won "very easily". In 1987, in Camagüey, he won the Capablanca Memorial B tournament.

Díaz played for Cuba in four Chess Olympiads: In 1968, at second reserve board in the 18th Chess Olympiad in Lugano (+1, =4, -2), In 1970, at first reserve board in the 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen (+3, =1, -4), In 1972, at second reserve board in the 20th Chess Olympiad in Skopje (+5, =4, -1), In 1990, at second reserve board in the 29th Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad (+3, =2, -0).

Díaz played for Cuba in four World Student Team Chess Championships: In 1966, at second reserve board in the 13th World Student Team Chess Championship in Örebro (+1, =3, -1), In 1969, at fourth board in the 16th World Student Team Chess Championship in Dresden (+1, =0, -2), In 1972, at first reserve board in the 19th World Student Team Chess Championship in Graz (+3, =3, -2), In 1974, at third board in the 20th World Student Team Chess Championship in Teesside (+7, =5, -0) and won individual bronze medal.

Díaz played for Cuba in two Pan American Team Chess Championships: In 1987, at first reserve board in the 3rd Pan American Team Chess Championship in Junín (+5, =0, -1) and won team gold and individual silver medals, In 1991, at second reserve board in the 4th Pan American Team Chess Championship in Guarapuava (+1, =2, -0) and won team and individual gold medals.

In 1975, Joaquín C. Díaz was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title.