Zenón Franco Ocampos

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Full name Zenon Franco Ocampos Role Chess Player Name Zenon Ocampos		Title Grandmaster Country Paraguay FIDE rating 2507

Born 12 May 1956 (age 68) Paraguay ( 1956-05-12 ) Books Chess Self‑Improvement, Test Your Chess, The Art of Attacking Chess, Anand: Move by Move, Winning Chess Explained

Zenón Franco Ocampos (born 12 May 1956, Paraguay) is a chess grandmaster (GM) from Paraguay. In the 1982 Chess Olympiad at Lucerne, he won the gold medal at board one by scoring 11 of 13. In the 1990 Chess Olympiad at Novi Sad, he shared first place at board one with 9 points in 12 games. As of 2007, Ocampos is the top-ranked player and only GM in Paraguay (now, there are three GMs: Zenon Franco, Axel Bachmann and Jose Cubas). He has written several books on chess for Gambit Publications under the name Zenon Franco.

Books

Franco, Zenon (2005). Chess Self-Improvement. Gambit Publications. ISBN 1-904600-29-8.

Franco, Zenon (2006). Winning Chess Explained. Gambit Publications. ISBN 1-904600-46-8.

Franco, Zenon; Crouch, Colin (2007). How to Defend in Chess. Gambit. ISBN 978-1-904600-83-1.

Franco, Zenon (2007). Chess Explained: The Modern Benoni. Gambit. ISBN 978-1-904600-77-0.

Franco, Zenon (2008). The Art of Attacking Chess. Gambit Publications. ISBN 1-904600-97-2.

Franco, Zenon (2009). Grandmaster Secrets: Counter-Attack!. Gambit Publications. ISBN 978-1906454098.

Franco, Zenon (2014). Anand: Move by Move. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1781941867.

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