Rafael Blanco
Rafael Blanco Estera (1 December 1885 — 4 August 1955) was a Cuban painter and chess player, three-times Cuban Chess Championship winner (1914, 1920, 1937). Career of an artist. In 1902-1905 Rafael Blanco Estera studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro". Chess career. From the mid-1910s to the late 1930s, Rafael Blanco Estera was one of the leading Cuban chess players. He participated in International Chess Tournament in Havana in 1913. He three times won the Cuban Chess Championship: 1914, 1920, and 1937. Rafael Blanco Estera played for Cuba in the Chess Olympiad: Rafael Blanco