Guillermo Garcia

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• Game, Guillermo Garcia vs. Armando Rodriguez, Capablanca Memorial Tournament, 1977.

Rodriguez vs. Garcia 24 Dec 1977, Sat Progress Bulletin (Pomona, California) Newspapers.com

The Talented Guillermo Garcia
Grandmaster Guillermo Garcia, acknowledged as the strongest player in Cuba, had a memorable success last June when he shared his first place in point score (he finished second on “tie breaks”) with Oleg Romanishin of the U.S.S.R. in the Capablanca Memorial Tournament.
Here we give his snapply win over countryman Armando Rodriguez. Garcia began a winning attack in the diagrammed position with the unanswerable 18. N-Q5!

Guillermo Garcia (white) vs. Armando Rodriguez (black)
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation

Descriptive 1. N-KB3 P-QB4 2. P-B4 N-KB3 3. N-B3 P-QN3 4. P-K4 P-Q3 5. P-Q4 PxP 6. NxP B-N2 7. P-B3 P-N3 8. B-K2 P-QR3 9. O-O Q-B2 10. B-K3 QN-Q2 11. P-QR4 B-N2 12. P-R5 O-O 13. N-N3 QR-N1 14. Q-Q2 PxP 15. NxP B-B1 16. KR-B1 R-Q1 17. P-QN4 B-B1 18. N-Q5! NxN 19. P-B4 N-B4 20. PxN PxP 21. N-B6 1-0

Algebraic 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 b6 4. e4 d6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bb7 7. f3 g6 8. Be2 a6 9. 0-0 Qc7 10. Be3 Nbd7 11. a4 Bg7 12. a5 0-0 13. Nb3 Rfb8 14. Qd2 bxa5 15. Nxa5 Bf8 16. Rfc1 Rd8 17. b4 Bc8 18. Nd5! Nxd5 19. f4 Nc5 20. bxc5 dxc5 21. Nc6 1-0

Cuban Master's Prize Money Held by U.S. 17 Apr 1988, Sun The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Cuban master's prize money held by U.S.
New York Times News Service
NEW YORK - A chess grandmaster from Cuba who won $10,000 in the prestigious New York Open chess tournament last month has been barred from taking his prize money out of the United States.
The action against Guillermo Garcia, 34, of Havana was taken under a provision of the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917, a spokesman for the Department of the Treasury said.
Garcia won second prize. Vassily Ivanchuk, a Russian who won $20,000 as the first prize in the tournament, has been allowed to take his money back to the Soviet Union.
The Trading With the Enemy Act became law during World War I. The sanctions against Cuba, the Treasury spokesman said, “were put into effect by President Kennedy in 1963.”
Reached before boarding a plane home, Garcia said: “It's very unfortunate and it saddens me. This is something that I never heard happen before in the history of chess, where a grandmaster wins a prize and he can't receive it.” Garcia is one of about 250 grandmasters in the world and has been Cuba's national champion three times.
The Treasury Department spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said that since Garcia resides in Cuba, “his prize goes into a blocked, interest-bearing account in his name in this country.”
“It's part of the economic embargo with Cuba,” the spokesman said.

Guillermo Garcia 27 Oct 1990, Sat North County Times (Oceanside, California) Newspapers.com

Guillermo Garcia
MEXICO CITY (AP) Guillermo Garcia, a Cuban chess grand master, died Friday in an auto accident at age 36.
Garcia, Cuban champion in 1974, 1977 and 1983, first drew international attention at age 14 when he defeated Argentinean grand master Oscar Panno. He had played on Cuban national chess teams in world competition since 1974.