{"id":482597,"date":"2025-09-12T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/inefi-recognizes-chess-player-angel-sebastian-lara-after-raising-the-dominican-republics-flag-high-in-a-brazilian-tournament\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:31:42","slug":"inefi-recognizes-chess-player-angel-sebastian-lara-after-raising-the-dominican-republics-flag-high-in-a-brazilian-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/inefi-recognizes-chess-player-angel-sebastian-lara-after-raising-the-dominican-republics-flag-high-in-a-brazilian-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"INEFI recognizes chess player \u00c1ngel Sebasti\u00e1n Lara after raising the Dominican Republic’s flag high in a Brazilian tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- The executive director of the National Institute of Physical Education (INEFI<\/a>), Alberto Rodr\u00edguez Mella, recognized this Friday the young chess player, \u00c1ngel Sebasti\u00e1n Lara Santos, who was the two-time champion of the Pan American School Chess Championship held recently in Brazil, with the participation of athletes from Argentina, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and the United States.\n\nThe delivery of the recognition was carried out within the framework of a visit to the INEFI headquarters by several students from the San Pio X School, which was headed by Lara Santos, accompanied by teachers Braulio Ram\u00edrez and Danold Valdez, the children Arthur Moronta, Endry F\u00e9lix N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Obed Manuel Alc\u00e1ntara Amparo and Emil Rijo.\n\n\n
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“For his talent and dedication, we present this plaque to \u00c1ngel Lara Santos for being an example of discipline, intelligence and passion for the sport of science,” Rodr\u00edguez emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn that vein, he invited the other students to continue studying and practicing sports, staying away from bad habits and crime.\n\nHe highlighted the achievements of Lara Santos at the national and international level, emphasizing that she is a product of the X National School Sports Games Barahona 2023, organized by INEFI, where she began her international competitive journey.\n\n\n

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\u201cFrom the Barahona Games, the institution has accompanied \u00c1ngel in his development and participation in various events, we hope that you will also work hard in your studies and the sport you practice,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez highlighted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the San Pio X School, the INEFI director informed that they will soon deliver equipment and provide maintenance to the sports facilities of that educational center.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
More about \u00c1ngel Lara Santos<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nRodr\u00edguez Mella highlighted that Lara Santos managed to prevail in the Blitz and Rapid (U13) modalities of the international competition, establishing herself as one of the main promises of regional chess.\n\nLara Santos was crowned champion of the Blitz modality (lightning), accumulating 7.5 points out of 9 possible.\n\nIn the Rapid mode, he achieved a perfect victory, with seven out of seven, including a notable win against the Paraguayan candidate master Enzo Mathias Vinales Gonz\u00e1lez.\n\n\n

You can also read: <\/strong> INEFI transforms the Juan Antonio Alix Club in Santiago<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAlongside him, the Central American and Caribbean champion, Alejandro Mu\u00f1oz (U11), and the brothers Bruno and Lucas Almonte (U9 and U17), also represented the country in Brazil, under the direction of the international master Jos\u00e9 Lisandro Mu\u00f1oz, captain of the delegation.\n\nIn Brazil, the Dominican Republic added three medals, two gold with \u00c1ngel Lara and a bronze obtained by Bruno Almonte in the U9 Rapid category.\n\n\n

The Pan American School Chess Championship is played in Blitz, Rapid and Standard modalities, under the Swiss system and the regulations of the International Chess Federation (FIDE<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Santo Domingo.- The executive director of the National Institute of Physical Education (INEFI), Alberto Rodr\u00edguez Mella, recognized this Friday the young chess player, \u00c1ngel Sebasti\u00e1n Lara Santos, who was the two-time champion of the Pan American School Chess Championship held recently in Brazil, with the participation of athletes from Argentina, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":482598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42291,42290,17545,15193],"class_list":{"0":"post-482597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brazil-tournament","9":"tag-chess","10":"tag-inefi","11":"tag-rd"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/PIE-DE-FOTO-ALBERTO-RODRIGUEZ-Y-ANGEL-LARA.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21xP","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/PIE-DE-FOTO-ALBERTO-RODRIGUEZ-Y-ANGEL-LARA.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}