Julio Ostos
Julio Eduardo Ostos was a Venezuelan chess International Master (IM) and five-time Venezuelan Chess Championship winner.
Biography
From the mid-1970s to the end of the 2000s, Ostos was one of Venezuela's leading chess players. He won the Venezuelan Chess Championship five times: 1974, 1980, 1985, 1987, and 2000. Ostos participated in the Pan American Chess Championship three times: 1988, 2007, and 2010.Ostos played for Venezuela in the Chess Olympiads:
- In 1976, at first board in the 22nd Chess Olympiad in Haifa,
- In 1978, at first board in the 23rd Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires,
- In 1980, at first board in the 24th Chess Olympiad in La Valletta,
- In 1982, at third board in the 25th Chess Olympiad in Lucerne,
- In 1988, at first board in the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki,
- In 1990, at first board in the 29th Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad,
- In 1996, at first board in the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan,
- In 2000, at first reserve board in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul,
- In 2002, at first reserve board in the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled,
- In 2004, at third board in the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvià,
- In 2006, at first reserve board in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin,
- In 2012, at fourth board in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.
- In 1976, at first board in the 21st World Student Team Chess Championship in Caracas,
- In 1977, at second board in the 22nd World Student Team Chess Championship in Mexico City.
- In 2000, at second board in the 6th Panamerican Team Chess Championship in Mérida and won individual bronze medal.