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{{short description|Cuban chess grandmaster (born 1967)}}
{{Family name hatnote|Arencibia|Rodríguez|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox chess player
| image = Arencibia,Walter 1998 Recklinghausen.jpeg
| caption = Walter Arencibia (1998)
| country = [[Cuba]]
| birth_date = {{Bda|1967|7|21}}
| birth_place = 
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (1990)
| peakrating = 2573 (January 2008)
| FideID = 3500012
}}

'''Walter Arencibia Rodríguez''' (born July 21, 1967) is a [[Cubans|Cuban]] [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]. 

He learned chess at the age of eight and has won various tournaments, including the 1986 [[World Junior Chess Championship]], for which he automatically gained the [[International Master]] title. Also in 1986, Rodríguez won the [[Pan American Junior Chess Championship]].<ref>[http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/p20b1986.htm Quito 1986 - 11° Campeonato Panamericano Juvenil]. BrasilBase.</ref> He was awarded the title of [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] in 1990. Other tournament victories include the Cuban Youth Championships in 1985, and equal first in the [[Canadian Open Chess Championship]] in 2006 and 2011. He has represented [[Cuba]] in nine [[Chess Olympiads]] from 1986 to 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/995vvlth.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Walter Arencibia|last=Bartelski|first=Wojciech|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=2009-07-07}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.walterarencibia.com Walter Arencibia's official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307231052/http://www.walterarencibia.com/ |date=2016-03-07 }}
*{{Fide|name=Arencibia Rodriguez, Walter}}
*{{chessgames player|id=29190}}
*[http://www.365chess.com/players/Walter_Arencibia Walter Arencibia] chess games at 365Chess.com

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[[Category:World Junior Chess Champions]]
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