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Leontxo Garcia
chess expertLeontxo García has studied the educational benefits of playing chess and is an advocate for the integration of chess as an educational tool into the curriculum based on the findings of scientific research. He is the Director of Speakers for the Kasparov Foundation Latin America, which has trained more than 13,000 teachers on the power of chess in education in Mexico, Panama and Spain since 2014.
Mr. García works as a lecturer, journalist, writer, TV and radio presenter and commentator. He writes a daily chess column, keeps a chess blog, and produces videos on chess. With chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, he produced the series La Pasión del Ajedrez (The Passion for Chess). He was awarded the Medal of Merit by the Spanish Government, and received a mention in the FIDE’s Golden Book “in appreciation of his excellent contributions to the development of chess in the world”.