IM & FT Nelson Pinal Borges

Nelson Pinal Borges, Cárdenas, Matanzas, Cuba. (28 Feb 1955)

Degree in Economics, University of Matanzas, Cuba 1980.
-International Chess Master, 1982
- FIDE Trainer - Trainer accredited by the International Chess Federation.
He began his working life in 1980, in the Economic Department of the Central Azucarero Jesús Rabí, Calimete, Matanzas. From 1981 to 1990, he was an official of the State Statistics Committee of Cuba in the Directorate of Standard of Living.
From July 1990 to September 1996, he was a Methodologist for the National Chess Commission. From 1996 to 1997 he worked in the Investment Evaluation Directorate of the CIMEX Corporation, Cuba.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Dominican Chess Federation 2006-2208
Author of the book Chess for amateurs - 1996 and From Capablanca to Magnus Carlsen - 2020
Selected by FIDE among 15 senior chess players for his career as a player, coach and writer. FIDE veterans support program 2021.
PINALCHESS personal page - http://www.ajedrezpinal.com/

IM Nelson Pinal Borges
Some sports results:
-National Youth Champion Cuba 1970.
-7th place at the World Youth Championship in Athens, Greece 1971.
-Individual and team gold medal, Central American and Caribbean Championship,
Mexico 1972
-Member of the Cuban team at the Student World Championship, Tesside, England 1974.
-Sub National Champion of Cuba in 1980.
-Winner of the International Tournament Joaquín Hurtado, Managua, Nicaragua 1984 and 1985.

-Super National Champion of the Dominican Republic - 2000 and 2016
-Second board of the Dominican team to the World Olympiad, Istanbul 2012.
-Winner of the Quick Games Tournament, Puerto Rico 2013
-Coach of the Dominican women's national team to the match with Puerto Rico.
-Coach of the Dominican women's team at the 2014 World Olympiad in Norway
-Second board of the Dominican team to the World Olympiad, Baku 2016
-Coach of the Young Chess Project R. D. and Liss Chess
-Coach of Dominican players to Central American and Caribbean Championships
Panama 2017, Guatemala 2018 and Honduras 2019
-He is a teacher / trainer in schools and educational institutions in the Dominican Republic.
-He has published works in the newspapers El Nacional, La Nación, Ultima Hora and Listín Diario, all from the Dominican Republic.
PINALCHESS personal page - http://www.ajedrezpinal.com/

-Coach of the Dominican women's national team to the match with Puerto Rico.
-Coach of the Dominican women's team at the 2014 World Olympiad in Norway
-Second board of the Dominican team to the World Olympiad, Baku 2016
-Coach of the Young Chess Project R. D. and Liss Chess
-Coach of Dominican players to Central American and Caribbean Championships
Panama 2017, Guatemala 2018 and Honduras 2019
-He is a teacher / trainer in schools and educational institutions in the Dominican Republic

For years I have been a coach of teams, talents and players of all ages. Privately and in schools and sports institutions, In Cuba and the Dominican Republic basically.

I have given hundreds of conferences and talks in the Dominican Republic on different chess topics, including Chess Culture.

Knowledge, experience, pedagogy to know how to reach the student.

Methodology of the Cuban chess school with José R. Capablanca as a guide to the study of the three phases of the game. Emphasis on the ending, tactics, and pawn structure. Understand chess as a game, art and science with a broad chess culture.