Francisco Trois

Francisco Trois (born 3 September 1946 in Canoas, Brazil) is a Brazilian chess International Master and International Arbiter (1986). He won the South American Chess Championship in 1978, in Tramandai, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He qualified for the Riga Interzonal in 1979, but finished with a disappointing result of +2 =6 -9. His two victories from that tournament were against Florin Gheorghiu and Gennady Kuzmin. He represented Brazil in the Chess Olympiads in 1972, 1978 and 1982.